The smiling prophet. With his greying beard and his gaze both clear and piercing, Franz Fischler increasingly offers a picture of a smiling prophet of future European agriculture. What is important is obviously not the external appearance: what is important is that he is gradually taking on the role as protector. For many years, the inability of Europe to alter the CAP (common agricultural policy) as situations and challenges changed risked destroying not only the CAP but European...