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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8983

5 July 2005
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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
A Look Behind The News, by Ferdinando Riccardi: Mad cows, soil-free farming, polluted water and the end of biodiversity were the fruit of the obsession with productivity in agriculture - Not an experience to be repeated

The forgotten battle. Everything has been forgotten; we will have to start again from scratch! That was the impression I got from the reactions to references in this column to the debate that have taken place over 15 years within the EU on agricultural policy, the need to reform the CAP and, at the same time, the imperative need to safeguard agricultural activity in Europe. At the level of heads of government, these debates led to the notion of the "multifunctionality" of agriculture (the...

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
THE DAY IN POLITICS
GENERAL NEWS
WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT