• no more dumping of surplus production on the export markets with massive subsidies. Export subsidies have been really reduced (see the graphs in my earlier diary "facts and figures about the CAP")

• subsidies have been mostly decoupled from surface or volumes, so as not to encourage extra production - they are now more and more linked to environmental criteria and that "stewardship" fluff and do not encourage production

• the EU is the biggest importer by far of agricultural products

At least the EU is going in the right direction. Not fast enough, but at least in the right direction.

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