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that's why I favour the rights of African and Third World states to impose tariff barriers to prevent the dumping of both agricultural and industrial products.

by Aruac on Mon Jun 20th, 2005 at 04:15:10 AM EST
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A lot of the arguments being made in this thread about CAP are similar to the arguments I have been hearing from the British government for the last couple of weeks.

Money is a sign of Poverty - Culture Saying
by RogueTrooper on Mon Jun 20th, 2005 at 04:21:15 AM EST
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You'll find little disagreement from me with what is said about the CAP in the UK. The CAP as it is currently run is a massive waste of resources and, worst of all from my point of view, a criminal drain on France's political capital in Europe.

But it IS, for political reasons, one of the political foundations of the EU and the UK's insistence to dismantle it is also seen as yet another attempt to break whatever political institutions exist at the EU level, to replace with nothing.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Mon Jun 20th, 2005 at 04:33:45 AM EST
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Had there been real reform of CAP in 2002 then I believe that the UK would be well on the way to joining the Euro. The Chirac inspired stich up knocked the wind out of the sails of Britain's europhiles. There was a palpable sense of disgust in the UK about the 2002 CAP agreement in the UK ( it was percieved as featherbeding for French farmers ).

This was when Blair and Chirac really feel out ( the Iraq war sealed the deal on their new found mutual antipathy ).

I have never felt that the UK wants to destroy European institutions. I am not sure where people on the continent get this idea.

Money is a sign of Poverty - Culture Saying

by RogueTrooper on Mon Jun 20th, 2005 at 06:11:23 AM EST
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Right -- it's that "replace with nothing" that matters.

The CAP needs reforming, not busting.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Tue Jun 21st, 2005 at 04:52:37 AM EST
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That's because the current CAP is such a bloody mess that it's easy to find problems with it. The basic principal of the CAP is sound, it's just the implementation that's stupid and wasteful
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Mon Jun 20th, 2005 at 04:46:08 AM EST
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