Sometimes I have the impression that I'm at the helm of a “supertanker”, said Mariann Fischer-Boel at the ELDR Congress in Stockholm on 30 October. According to the European Commission for matters agricultural, it was impossible to turn such a beast around. All that could be done was, perhaps, nudge it, “slowly and gently”, in a direction that would see the common agricultural policy come more into line with the realities of the agricultural markets. Let's just hope that this...