CAP: Sorting the facts from fiction

The Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) has played a major role in developing agriculture in Europe. Butter mountains and milk and wine lakes, meat piles and wheat stores, they all have disappeared and a vibrant farming sector across the EU has been developed. Still there are many misunderstandings about the CAP. The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is one of the key European Union policies and one of the building blocks on which the EU was built. Much has been said and written about the CAP