This publication is the result of Task Force work launched by Notre Europe in the end of 2005. The ambition of this contribution is to reconsider without taboos the objectives of a European farm policy with a long view; to assess the instruments currently in place; and, drawing lessons from the past, to make suggestions on how to design the future CAP due in 2013.

Foreword by Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa

The common agricultural policy (CAP), one of the most significant budget lines of the EU, has become a major european taboo. As the focal point of most crisis or periods of stagnation in the history of european integration, this policy draws dividing lines in european debates. This can be explained by the extreme diversity of visions of agriculture's role among member states. Some of them consider agriculture as a declining sector and the CAP as a useless and costly policy. Others depict it as an essential activity and stress the need for a strong common policy[...]



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