Mariann Fischer Boel recognizes peri urban dimension of the CAP

" If peri-urban areas are in a sense both green and grey, a good way of avoiding a false distinction is to call them purple" suggested Mariann Fischer Boel, Member of the European Commission responsible for Agriculture and Rural Development. On 22 May, Only two days after the Commission’s legislative proposals about the "Health Check" of the CAP, she admitted that "on the edge of so many European towns and cities, or even inside them, there are valuable areas of land where wheat grows or where cows graze happily in full view of office blocks". "These must not be allowed to fall off the policy map" she declared. 

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Mrs Fischer Boel at the PURPLE event