Latest Speeches

Corrado Pirzio-Biroli, RISE CEO, speaking at the 2013 SIMA International Agri-business show in Paris on the impending environmental challenges facing European agriculture and the tools to support farmers in the transition to a more sustainable production base. (Discours en français).

Corrado Pirzio-Biroli, RISE CEO discusses the CAP reform in light of International food and environmental security concerns before the Board of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, in Washington DC.

Budget Freeze, EU Fatigue and Eurozone Headway:Towards a Multi-Tier Europe. Speech given by Corrado Pirzio-Biroli, RISE CEO before the ELO General Assembly and the European Family Businesses, Dublin, 3 December, 2012.

Address by RISE CEO, Corrado Pirzio-Biroli before the LONDON AGRICULTURAL FORUM, 9 May, 2012 - on perspectives of the next CAP reform in light of the growing food and environmental security challenges. To what extent will the reform be able meet the stated objectives while responding to the needs of Europe's farmers,  industry, taxpayers and consumers?

Franz Fischler, Chairman of RISE and the annual Forums for the Future of Agriculture, opened the 2012 Brussels conference which welcomed over 1000 participants with his vision on the challenges and solutions to be prioritised in the EU agriculture sector. Read the vision and his conclusions based on the full day's debates, here.