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Interesting how advocates of a "sensible farm policy" in the UK take the social evisceration of rural communities for granted.
The EU's much-maligned CAP was also driven by an assumption that food security and rural ways of life were as important as the market
The EU's much-maligned CAP was also driven by an assumption that food security and rural ways of life were as important as the market
All those beautiful rural landscapes that British tourists admire in Italy and Austria also survived through EU coordinated policies including the CAP.
Reaching back to the 1950s, 60s and 70s national subsidies and the EU's CAP were crucial to enabling rural land reform programmes that helped democratise and stabilise several EU27 societies
To reduce rural life entirely to the rules of the market is to fuel social instability
To reduce rural life entirely to the rules of the market is to fuel social instability
