EU farm plan could lead to food shortfalls

EU POLICY on agriculture was one of the bedrocks of the entire post-World War II dream to create a peaceful European continent.

It was decided that self-sufficiency in food was a prerequisite to developing a war-free Europe and the Common Agricultural Policy was put in place to guarantee that.

The CAP was a huge factor influencing our decision to join the European Economic Community, as it was called in 1973.