Brussels, 26/09/2005 (Agence Europe) - Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern has energetically defended the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) against all those who, like British Prime Minister Tony Blair, say it is a relic from the past that costs the EU far too much. “I do not believe that it is valid to claim that the CAP absorbs too high a percentage of the EU budget compared with other activities. That percentage is high only because agriculture is the only fully funded EU policy”,...