Union President Vents Frustration Over 'Simplistic' Cap Reform Farming
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TIM Bennett, the president of the National Farmers' Union of England and Wales, yesterday voiced his frustrations at policies pursued by the government since it came to power in 1997.
Speaking at the prestigious Oxford Farming Conference, he said: "The Common Agricultural Policy was reformed in 2003, although to listen to politicians, you would not think so. Further CAP reform is now being represented as a kind of 'magic wand' that might provide the resolution not only to the WTO talks and world poverty, but also to any crisis of the European integration process.See the full content of this document
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Union President Vents Frustration Over 'Simplistic' Cap Reform Farming
"This simplistic representation fails to acknowledge a number of issues, particularly the fact that the 2003 agr...
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