Why EU agricultural policy can only be a common policy. The common agricultural policy (CAP) will be duly protected under the EU's Financial Perspectives for 2014-2020. The European Commission and a very large majority of the European Parliament, as well as almost all member states, agree on this point (see this column yesterday). The CAP is by far the oldest Community policy. It was set up as an emergency measure in the 1950s because at the time we still had children who went hungry in our...