EU Fudge

In the Libertas office we really enjoyed this video from the Taxpayers Alliance.

Focusing on agricultural policy it highlights the waste and overregulation that define so much of the currently self-serving bureaucracy that is the current EU.

Like so much of EU policy, the CAP (Common Agricultural Policy) was introduced for good reasons - ensuring European food security, protecting rural livelihoods and promoting food as an aspect of Europe’s rich and diverse culture.

However, equally typically, it has lost its way. The CAP is now an unwieldy bureaucratic juggernaut which has rolled over those who have attempted to reform it in the past. The CAP now stands for unfair contribution and distribution of EU money, for supporting large, industrial farming and for entrenching poverty in the world’s poorest countries. It really is a perfect storm of the EU’s current problems with the Brussels beholden to certain interests rather than representing European people.

Libertas is committed to ending the closed-door decision making and excessive red-tape that are the signs of an undemocratic, unaccountable organisation. If you want to reform the EU and make the CAP fit, join us and make your voice heard and your vote count in the European Elections on June 4th