France gets over 10 billion euros a year in CAP expenditures. So, this 71 million for two years would be the equivalent of a rounding error.
It's sometimes useful to be remember who owns the EUobserver.
Who does? Is it Murdoch again? A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!