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...