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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8499

8 July 2003
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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
: Successful reform of European farming cannot be separated from maintaining protection from outside forces

Franz Fischler was basically right. Reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has arrived, and I won't go over it in detail. After the series of partial changes in the past, a decisive step had to be made by introducing the idea of subsidies for European farmers no longer being automatically connected with the volumes farmed. The danger of shortages is luckily a thing of the past so the rigid link between aid and production is negative because it encourages farmers to produce to get...

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
THE DAY IN POLITICS
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