CAP is not just a common policy. Why is agriculture a priority? The future of all common policies will be determined by the financial perspectives, which will set out how the EU's resources are allocated over the 2014-2020 period. So far, it is only for the common agricultural policy (CAP) that it is possible to indicate principles and orientations, and even the amount of funding appears to have been agreed at almost the current level. This special position is due to the growing...