The new European Parliament is obviously in favour of common EU policies and the use of new instruments provided by the Lisbon Treaty for expanding and developing them. This orientation covers just as much the newly planned policies (such as the one for energy) as the two existing ones which have recently been discussed, at least from a budgetary point of view - the common agricultural policy (CAP) and cohesion policy (see this column yesterday).
CAP support grows. No-one disagrees that the...