The Commission has launched the CAP@50 communication campaign to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Common Agricultural Policy, a cornerstone of European integration. The year-long communication campaign includes an interactive website and an itinerant exhibition among other activities and events that will be celebrate in the Member States.

In order to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Common Agricultural Policy, the European Commission has launched the CAP@50 communication campaign. Under the slogan "A partnership between Europe and Farmers", the year-long communication campaign includes an interactive website, an itinerant exhibition, audio-visual and printed materials, as well as a series of events in Brussels and the Member States. The 50 Years of CAP website in 22 languages will present a video in which Dacian Cioloş, Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, is showing how agriculture affects your everyday life.

The Common Agricultural Policy is a cornerstone of European integration, and according to Mr Cioloş, has provided European citizens with half a century of food security and a living countryside. 2012 is an important year not only to remember the past 50 years of history, but especially for Europeans to look ahead towards a new reform of the Common Agricultural Policy. The CAP reform proposal was presented in October 2011.

Throughout 2012 a series of events will be organised at national and EU level and an itinerant exhibition will travel around Europe from spring 2012. The exhibition will be displayed in several EU Institutions and Member States. Also several national launching events are also foreseen in the six founding members of the EU: Germany (Berlin, 20 January); Italy (Verona, 2 February); France, (Paris, 27 February) and Benelux (tbc, 4 April).