CAP attack was not out of context

JOHN McGURK of Libertas was on Morning Ireland (April 28) defending Declan Ganley of the anti-Lisbon treaty group Libertas who described the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) as a “weapon of mass destruction”.

Mr McGurk claimed Mr Ganley’s comments were “taken ridiculously out of context” and, in fact, that Mr Ganley wanted to reform the CAP so that small farmers from the west of Ireland could get the most from it.

I beg to differ. For the record, Mr Ganley wrote an article for the American Foreign Policy Institute, entitled ‘Europe’s direction? A Voice from Ireland’ on March 11, 2003 in which he attacked the CAP and made the following points: