Emergency Surgery Needed for Cap - Not a Health Check ; the European Commission has Finally Unveiled Its Long-Awaited 'Health Check' of the Common Agricultural Policy (Cap).

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The European Commission has finally unveiled its long-awaited "Health Check" of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).

Contrary to popular opinion, this was scheduled for nearly five years, after being mandated as part of the 2003/04 Reforms of the CAP and is not a response to the recent food-price rise.

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Emergency Surgery Needed for Cap - Not a Health Check ; the European Commission has Finally Unveiled Its Long-Awaited 'Health Check' of the Common Agricultural Policy (Cap).

In my opinion, rather than a Health Check, the CAP needs emergency surgery. This could have been an opportunity for radical and lasting reform, and, although the proposals will help somewhat, they are nowhere near as strong as they could have been.

That said, I very much welcome the abolition of set-aside. We simply cannot justify keeping ...

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