Article: Better late... ; Conservative South West MEP Neil Parish seems to be telling us (November 28) that after five years in the European Parliament, he now acknowledges that the European Union cannot be reformed from within - at least not by the Brits, and especially not as regards the Common Agricultural Policy.

Article: Unshackle farmers from the cap, says Euro MP ; Europe's farmers ...
Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  April 24, 2008 ;     479 words ... ... international food shortages and soaring prices if they were unshackled from the Common Agricultural Policy, a Conservative Euro-MP has claimed. South West MEP Neil Parish said farmers were "champing at the bit" to produce more food but were ...

Article: Health check plans 'don't go far enough' ; Like the proverbial ...
Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  May 26, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Like the proverbial curate's egg, the Common Agricultural Policy Health Check proposals are good in parts, according ... too much to the discretion of member states. CLA South West director John Mortimer said many of the proposals ...

Article: Emergency surgery needed for cap - not a health check ; The ...
Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  June 4, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... unveiled its long-awaited "Health Check" of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Contrary to popular opinion, this was scheduled ... over the next four years. This will help farmers in the South West, because it will start to level the playing field. This ...

Article: MPs must put nation's interests first ; I imagine some of our ...
Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  December 30, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... imagine some of our South West MPs read the WMN ... disastrous effect on the South West. Dairy farmers going ... down wages. Every South West MP supports our EU ... at sea, the Common Agricultural Policy and ludicrous Human ...

Article: Still haunted by beckett's blunder South West MEP ...
Western Daily Press (Bristol UK);  July 17, 2007 ;     700+ words ...South West MEP Neil Parish, chairman of the European Parliament's agriculture ... farm payment. Let's go back to the beginning. When the Common Agricultural Policy was decoupled, Margaret Beckett went steaming ahead with a system ...

Article: Hard year for tourist business ; Optimism is important in ...
Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  May 14, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... evidence to back it up is a dangerous indulgence. So while South West Tourism boss Malcolm Bell has been criticised for his largely ... some merit. With reform of the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy imminent, which could bring to an end the system of grants ...

Article: MEP focuses on food production worldwide ; Food production within ...
Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  September 24, 2008 ;     493 words ... ... MEP Neil Parish when he spoke to the autumn meeting of the South West Conservative Rural Action Group (CRAG). In a wide-ranging ... was a need to recognise we were in a significant period of agricultural policy reform across the European Union. He spoke about the implications ...