An appreciable, but probably ineffectual, effort by Ireland. At the beginning of the month, the Irish Presidency of the Agriculture Council distributed a document containing a few truths about the Union's agricultural policy (see our bulletin of 8 May, pp 9/10). This document demonstrates that the CAP has been reformed in the right direction, taking account of the genuine interests of nature and of humanity, and destroying the myth of European agriculture as a closed shop, arrogant and...