Joyeux Anniversaire! Alles Gute zum Geburtstag! Buon Compleanno! Hartelijk gefeliciteerd! Feliz Cumpleaños! Nifrahlek ghal gheluq sninek! (The last one is Maltese - I don't want to be accused of ignoring the smaller countries now do I!)
Just a quick post to congratulate the EU on 50 years of existence. I know there are many who would rather see the back of it but I am proud to say I am not one of them. I sincerely believe the EU has, overall, had an extremely positive effect on our continent. Long may it continue!
That said, it seems as if our union may be going through something of a mid-life crisis. The CAP once served a purpose in times of food shortages but it is long past its sell-by date. If you're thinking the same as me then might I suggest you send the EU a little birthday greeting? Post a comment on the EU Commissioner for Agriculture's blog. Tell her that we're proud of our union as it passes the half century mark but that we want the madness of subsidised agriculture to CEASE! (If enough of us mention the campaign then maybe she'll even put in an appearance here at a later date!)
Monday, March 26, 2007
Happy 50th Birthday EU!
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The CAP subsidises food production. Just as we subsidise health, education, and houses. If we do not subsidise food production, then we will have more famines, and have our food security destroyed. You should campaign for Africa to have have CAP.
www.lonympics.co.uk/CAP.htm
Thanks for the link to your site...it's a shame that it's not possible to leave comments on it. You seem to suggest that it is only the 'right wing' that is against the CAP. This is certainly not the case! All development NGOs that I know of that work with the issue of agriculture development are aginst it (see the links I have provided to their websites). They can hardly be decribed as right wing or neoliberal! The US government is extremely pro-subsidies and is handing them out left, right and centre for the cultivation of corn-based ethanol, a highly inefficient way of producing biofuels.
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