Re-Arranging The Deckchairs On The Titanic?

Negotiators from EU member states and the European Parliament yesterday approved a raft of changes to the CAP including limiting subsidies to larger farms, abolishing sugar quotas by 2017, mandatory aid for young farmers, and introducing more environmental conditionality. Open Europe’s Pieter Cleppe is quoted by Deutsche Wirtschaftsnachrichten criticising the agreement as not going far enough to reduce direct subsidies to farmers, which act as a disincentive for modernisation.
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