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EU survey offers pointers

LIKE all bogeymen, European taxpayers who want to scrap the Common Agricultural Policy do not exist.

EU survey offers pointers

Thu, 28 Oct, 2004 - 01:00

Stephen Cadogan

The truth is that most Europeans have never heard of this policy which directly pays three out of every four euro earned by Irish farmers.

Over the last 10 years, Eurobarometer surveys have polled EU citizens’ attitudes to the CAP.

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