Common Agricultural Policy
Debate between George Eustice and Dai Havard(11 years, 5 months ago)
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Neil Parish
This will tempt my hon. Friend further from the topic of debate, but would a looser common agricultural policy, or an agriculture policy, be part of a new relationship that we might negotiate with Europe?
George Eustice
It might be, if we get to that point, but I do not want to be distracted by that now.
There is potential and it is not unrealistic, because that is the direction of the common fisheries policy. The Commission, under Commissioner Damanaki, is buying into ideas that will effectively lead to a partial repatriation —of sorts—of the management of individual waters and fisheries only to those groups of countries that share that fishing water. That is a sensible plan.