France's responsibilities. France has always been the most vigorous proponent of the common agricultural policy (CAP), as everybody knows. It is far less well known that at the same time, France has a lot of the responsibility to bear for the CAP's shortcomings and the poor image the policy drags behind it in many of the Member States and in the world in general. Instead of putting forward the CAP as an essential instrument to safeguard the environment, territorial equilibrium, and the...