Press Release: ‘EU citizens want safe food and healthy environment from farm policy’, says European Commission poll

The Spring 2002 Eurobarometer

A majority of Europeans want to see a change in the way the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) supports the EU farmers suggests that more than 60% of EU citizens see a shift of farm subsidies from production to directly supporting farmers and the rural areas as 'a very good' or 'fairly good' thing. Support among those questioned for direct support to farmers was on average 62%, up 6 % compared to the last Eurobarometer poll of mid-2001