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21/11/2008 12:10:04
Brussels Reaches Compromise on Battle Over Farming Subsidies
The perennial fight over Europe’s Common Agricultural Policy has once again led to a diluted reform package. Called ’Health Check,’ the package pleases few -- but it will reduce some direct payment to farmers and loosen production limits.
After a marathon of all-night negotiations, the European Commission in Brussels finally approved a compromise deal with member states early Thursday morning to enact the biggest reform of the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in five years.
The package of reforms, labelled with the unthreatening name "Health Check," did not go as far as EU Farm Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel had hoped. But farm subsidies consistently rank as one of the most controversial issues facing the EU, with member states eager to protect their farmers even as outside groups criticize the system as unfair both to European consumers and to farmers in the Third World.
After a marathon of all-night negotiations, the European Commission in Brussels finally approved a compromise deal with member states early Thursday morning to enact the biggest reform of the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in five years.
The package of reforms, labelled with the unthreatening name "Health Check," did not go as far as EU Farm Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel had hoped. But farm subsidies consistently rank as one of the most controversial issues facing the EU, with member states eager to protect their farmers even as outside groups criticize the system as unfair both to European consumers and to farmers in the Third World.
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