One of its founding members, Dacian Cioloş, served as European Commissioner for Agriculture from 2010 to 2014 and later as Prime Minister of Romania.
The Groupe summarizes its own mission [1] as "to provide an independent, positive and constructive criticism of the CAP".
The latter had been formed in the context of the debate on reform of the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy in the early 1990s.
In 1996 the Groupe published the book Agriculture at a Turning Point in France, Spain and the Netherlands.
On at least two occasions, the Groupe has attempted to influence public opinion through open letters to the European Parliament.