Press Release: EU public continues to be highly favourable towards recent agricultural policy reforms

For the second year running, EU citizens have given a strong endorsement to recent changes to EU farm policy. This was one of the main findings of a poll examining the attitudes of citizens to agriculture and the Common Agricultural Policy. This survey, following on from a similar one conducted in 2006, confirmed a predominantly favourable reaction to key elements of the 2003 agreement on CAP reform. The survey, conducted by TNS Opinion on behalf of the European Commission Directorate General for Agriculture and Rural Development, was carried out between the 19th of November and the 14th of December 2007[1]. Using the methodology of the standard Eurobarometer, around 1000 face-to-face interviews were conducted in each of the 27 EU Member States.