Główny temat z dnia Środa, 21. Listopad 2007

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Cutting Europe's farm subsidies

The EU wants to spend less money on farm subsidies in future, and more on environmental protection and conservation of the countryside. The planned measures were outlined in a draft proposal for the simplification and modernisation of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) put forward by EU Agriculture and Rural Development Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel yesterday.

La Libre Belgique - Belgia

Interviewed by Olivier le Bussy, Jean-François Sneesens - professor of rural economy at the Catholic University of Louvain - considers that CAP reforms "are perfectly in line with what was done previously. On the one hand, it is an adjustment to the demands of the WTO, and it is also linked to the evolution of the EU itself. With 27 member states, the CAP is more and more difficult to manage. The Commission has a very strong desire to simplify it. ... The present situation is very advantageous for cereals and milk, and this facilitates the Commission's task. But prices will not peak forever. The idea is that we could do without regulating supplies. I think the Commission is a bit too optimistic, because these are unpredictable markets and it is always good to be able to count on regulatory mechanisms." (21/11/2007)

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Der Standard - Austria

With special reference to Austrian farmers, Michael Moravec asserts that farm subsidies should not be entirely abolished. "Despite the positive income developments, many farms in Austria are still facing the question of whether to continue or close down. And if they do close down the tasks that cultivation of the land involves will be neglected. For Austria, a popular tourist destination, it's crucial that meadows and Alpine pastures are not left to run wild, that forest paths are tended to and village structures are not allowed to further deteriorate. The 'modernisation' of the EU's agricultural policy is entirely justified: we must get away from funding production only to have the products destroyed, away from the lakes of wine and mountains of butter, and move instead towards bonuses for the preservation of areas under cultivation - and stronger support for farmers in a difficult environment. There should be managed farms in the mountains, even if such measures are expensive." (21/11/2007)

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Wszystkie dostępne teksty » Michael Moravec

Berliner Zeitung - Niemcy

Werner Balsen praises the draft proposals put forward by the EU Agriculture Commissioner, saying the timing "could hardly have been better". "Many farmers from Lapland to Andalusia are now better off than ever thanks to the rise in milk and grain prices. Therefore it's a good time to open a debate about the EU's instruments for pampering farmers. North Rhine-Westphalia and Brandenburg have just revealed who receives what of the funding from Brussels - and often enough it's the larger farms and foodstuff companies. ... Fischer Boel's proposals are forward-looking because they would cut subsidies for large agricultural operations and use the money to back a more environmentally friendly type of agriculture that can meet the challenges of climate protection and the protection of endangered species. ... Berlin's almost knee-jerk reaction is therefore unjustified - even if the underdeveloped region of eastern Germany would be hard hit by the changes in Brussels." (21/11/2007)

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Wszystkie dostępne teksty » Werner Balsen

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