Abstract
The CAP has long been a stumbling block among EU members. Last year, Jacques Chirac strongly opposed Tony Blair's proposal about the CAP. Indeed, France is the country which receives more agricultural subsidies while the United Kingdom does not get any concern in the agricultural policies. The Common Agricultural Policy is a typical European item, given that the Rome Treaty, signed in 1957, holds that the European Economic Community should lead common policies concerning agriculture. In the 1960's was created the first organization dealing with agriculture, the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF). Nowadays, agriculture has remained a central topic, giving that the regulation dealing with agriculture stands for half of the European global regulation. First of all, it seems useful to indicate what the CAP is. Article 33 of the European community holds that the CAP aims at boosting the agricultural productivity, providing farmers with an "equitable income", ensuring the supply of fresh products to European countries and reasonable prices for consumers. No one can deny that those purpose are all the more well funded as when the Rome Treaty was written, European farmers could not meet the European demand of food. Moreover, helping farmers was necessary because they stood for a large part of the European labor force.
