A feeble objection. It is difficult not to share the overview of the EU's agricultural future outlined in the Fischler plan (see yesterday's column) and the ministers rejecting the plan attacked neither its objectives nor its principles. Their criticisms focussed on two elements - failing to respect the Berlin timetable set at the European Council in 1999, according to which true reform of the CAP will not take place until 2006 and therefore one should stick to mid-term changes at the...