Fedeagro, the farmers' federation, blames any idle land on the government's lack of an agricultural policy.
The panel also took questions on the Common Agricultural Policy and aquaculture and climate change.
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As early as 1960 France and Germany clashed over the founding of Europe's common agricultural policy.
On agriculture, for example, Europeans are due to rethink the common agricultural policy after 2013.
But France, a big beneficiary from the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), wants spending levels maintained.
European leaders said high prices showed the protectionist common agricultural policy needed to be preserved.
The Union's common agricultural policy remains one of the main obstacles to a successful Doha round.
Later the committee examined the Common Agricultural Policy (Cap), this can be viewed below.
The largest single budget item remains farm subsidies under the Common Agricultural Policy.
The Welsh Government led a debate on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) Reform, on 29 November 2011.
The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has been reformed since the days of wine lakes and butter mountains.
"Neither WTO not GATT has direct effect in EU law", nor is the Common Agricultural Policy relevant.
Most internal tariffs were dismantled and the first steps taken towards a centrally financed common agricultural policy.
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During a summer at the World Bank, she worked on Moroccan agricultural policy with a team of consultants.
France is pushing for cuts in the structural funds even as it defends the wasteful common agricultural policy.
There is, apparently, money in the existing Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) budget.
The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) swallows the biggest share of the EU budget.
The European Commission unveiled proposals to reform, modestly, Europe's common agricultural policy .
In Westminster Hall, there's a debate on the Common Agricultural Policy after 2013.
Government ministers have been studying ways of reforming the EU's Common Agricultural Policy.
The notorious Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) already eats up about euro42 billion a year, roughly half of the European budget.
What would agricultural policy, regional policy, social policy and the rest look like, if the Conservative euro-reformers had their way?
EU, meanwhile, the prospect of enlargement to the east is increasing the pressure for reform of the common agricultural policy.
The funding - for adopting environmentally friendly methods - will be available thorugh the Common Agricultural Policy's new Entry Level Scheme.
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Oxfam believes the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) encourages over-production of goods, but this has been disputed by farmers' leaders.
Changes in the exchange rate also reduced the value of European payments made under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), he suggested.
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Sure, there is a familiar list of gripes: the Common Agricultural Policy, the Common Fisheries Policy, employment law and immigration rights.
It is because of the common agricultural policy that we end up having to have a rebate in the first place.
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The British, Swedish and Dutch agreed not to seek further cuts in the Common Agricultural Policy or the funding for poorer regions.
But it does not constitute the radical reform of agricultural policy that Britain is looking for in exchange for surrendering its rebate.
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