Events not to be dramatised. Learning of the first reactions to his plan to revise the common agricultural policy, Franz Fischler declared in July: "effervescence is part of tradition, in the CAP nothing is achieved without psychodrama". We must not therefore dramatise the events that accompany the debates in the Agriculture Council on the subject. And yet that is precisely what part of the press and some ministers are trying to do: One example: the letter in defence of the CAP written by...