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"Madam President, it is a measure of the ideological poverty of the European Union that anyone can, with a straight face, still talk about success and the CAP in the same sentence. As the common fisheries policy is widely acknowledged as having been disastrous, so too is the CAP.
The central fault of the CAP is that it is a common policy, and it is not possible to have one policy covering sub-Arctic Finland, the temperate grasslands of Cheshire, the wine growers of Bordeaux, the arid near-subtropical vegetable growers of Catalonia, or the sheep producers of the mountains of Greece, much less the highly populous Denmark which produces more pigs than people.
But the other major fault of the CAP is that it is an agricultural policy. As demonstrated during the foot-and-mouth crisis in our country, agriculture is an integral part of the rural economy. There is massive interdependence between farming and its rural infrastructure. Support one part without taking into account the needs of the other and you can create damaging distortions, which is exactly what has happened.
Enlargement would have been an opportunity to have started with a clean sheet, but it was missed with Agenda 2000's so-called reforms; and it will be missed again. Now the disaster is to be imposed on the enlargement countries. This you will have cause to regret."@en1
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