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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p><jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">E</jats:styled-content>urope's <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">C</jats:styled-content>ommon <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">A</jats:styled-content>gricultural <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">P</jats:styled-content>olicy (<jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">CAP</jats:styled-content>), its evolving role and financial and political significance have long been hot topics among rural stakeholders. This article analyses a ten‐country study examining the nature and key points of discussion concerning the new reform of the <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">CAP</jats:styled-content>, finally agreed in <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">S</jats:styled-content>eptember 2013. The study examined stakeholder views on the <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">C</jats:styled-content>ommission's <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">N</jats:styled-content>ovember 2010 <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">C</jats:styled-content>ommunication, the <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">I</jats:styled-content>mpact <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">A</jats:styled-content>ssessment and the <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">O</jats:styled-content>ctober 2011 draft legislative proposals for the 2014–2020 period. Case‐studies for each country and comparative analysis were used to stimulate discussion at an international policy conference in early 2012. The article updates <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">E</jats:styled-content>rjavec <jats:italic>et al</jats:italic>.'s analysis of the changing discourse in <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">B</jats:styled-content>russels, contrasting its move from a neoliberal to a more neo‐mercantilist position, with the nuanced, heavily path‐dependent attitudes and negotiating stances in the <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">M</jats:styled-content>ember <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">S</jats:styled-content>tates, even when key interest groups express consistent views across national boundaries. In this context, we see why what looked from <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">B</jats:styled-content>russels like a consensus‐oriented package still failed to offer a clear way forward for the <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">C</jats:styled-content>ouncil and <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">P</jats:styled-content>arliament. <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">T</jats:styled-content>aking stock in <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">O</jats:styled-content>ctober 2013, we note the outcome – a potentially greener and slightly more cohesion‐sensitive policy, with weaker differentiation between its pillars but much increased national differentiation – and its future implications.</jats:p>