Stating that agriculture represents a political, strategic and economic priority for Europe today (see this column of the day before yesterday) does not equate to a lack of awareness of the need to revise the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). On the contrary: once the importance of this policy is recognised, it will be easier to condemn the errors, waste and abuses associated with it and stamp them out. In practice, reflections have already begun, although they will not become formal until...