The political climate surrounding the European Commission's proposal to reform the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) continues to improve. Consensus is taking shape about the need to discuss the issue, which is the first essential step. Only France had flatly refused to negotiate at once, for timetable reasons. But there was not even unanimity on this in France. I had already amply quoted the reasonable position, open to negotiation, of the rapporteur of the European Parliament, French...