Politics before people as politicians can’t do their job

It looks like politics come before people, as MEPs complained that member states aren’t playing fair with them, and refused to participate in meetings where our Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney is trying to get agreement on CAP reform before the Irish presidency of the EU ends on June 30.

MEPs warned this week that June agreement is unlikely. The Irish government says if no deal is struck in June, reform could be delayed for years.

They could be right, because politicians in Germany will not be willing to let CAP decisions endanger their seats which are up for grabs in federal elections next September. And the MEPs will be even more afraid to make big decisions in the run-up to European Parliament elections in May 2014.