CAP PROPOSALS SO UNPOPULAR – BEGS QUESTION: SHOULD THE EU BE RESPONSIBLE FOR FARM SUBSIDIES
October 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL
The reform package for the European Union's (EU) Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) released today has been so unpopular, it begs the question - is Europe really the best level of government to control food production subsidies?
The CAP has always been at the heart of the EU - part of the grand bargain that underpinned its launch in the 1950s between Germany and France. The French agreed to open their markets to German manufacturers and in return the Germans helped pay for French agriculture, via the then European Economic Community.
But with an ...
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