On 21 December 1968, the European Commission submits to the Council a memorandum on agricultural reform. This is the Agriculture 1980 plan, also known as the Mansholt Plan, named after the European Commissioner with special responsibility for agriculture.

Sicco Mansholt, für Landwirtschaft zuständiges Mitglied der Europäischen Kommission, gibt im Jahr 1968 eine Pressekonferenz, auf der er die Vorschläge der Kommission zur Reform der Gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik (GAP) und zur Festsetzung der Agrarpreise vorstellt.

In diesem Interview spricht Hans-August Lücker, ehemaliger Generalberichterstatter für die Agrarpolitik im Europäischen Parlament, über die Bedeutung des Plans zur Modernisierung der europäischen Landwirtschaft und erklärt den Mechanismus zur Festsetzung der Agrarpreise in der Europäischen Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft (EWG).

On 20 February 1969, Sicco Mansholt, European Commissioner with special responsibility for agriculture, gives an interview to the Italian daily newspaper Corriere della Sera, on his plan to reform the common agricultural policy (CAP)

On 29 April 1970, Sicco Mansholt, European Commissioner with special responsibility for agriculture, publishes his plans for agricultural reform.

On 15 February 1971, Sicco Mansholt (left), Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for Agriculture, Michel Cointat (centre), French Agriculture Minister, and Franco Maria Malfatti (right), President of the European Commission, talk in the margins of the Council of Agriculture Ministers of the Six in Brussels.

On 29 April 1971, Sicco Mansholt, European Agriculture Commissioner, denounces the attitude of the officers of the European Confederation of Agriculture (ECA) as the crisis involving European farmers unfolds.

On 31 March 1971, following the demonstrations by European farmers in Brussels, Sicco Mansholt, European Agriculture Commissioner, writes to the President of the Belgian Farmers’ Union and invites him to speak in a public debate about the implications of a reform of the common agricultural policy (CAP).

In February 1972, Sicco Mansholt, European Commissioner with special responsibility for agriculture, writes to Franco Maria Malfatti, President of the Commission, and to the other Members of the Commission encouraging them to address in a ‘testament' the most serious current problems.

Am 6. März 1972 steht Alfredo Diana, Präsident des allgemeinen italienischen Landwirtschaftsverbands (Confagricoltura), der italienischen Tageszeitung Corriere della sera zur Reform der Gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik (GAP) Rede und Antwort.

Despite the unpopularity of some measures included in the Mansholt Plan, the Council of Ministers rally, and on 17 April 1972, adopt a directive on farm modernisation.

Despite the unpopularity of certain measures in the Mansholt Plan, the Council of Ministers actively supports and then adopts, on 17 April 1972, a directive concerning measures to encourage the cessation of farming and the re-allocation of agricultural land for structural improvement.

Despite the unpopularity of certain measures in the Mansholt Plan, the Council of Ministers actively supports and then adopts, on 17 April 1972, a directive concerning the acquisition of occupational skills by persons engaged in agriculture.

On 17 April 1972, Sicco Mansholt, appointed President of the European Commission one month earlier, defends, before the Council, three socio-structural Directives designed to achieve the modernisation of European farms.

In 1974, in a published collection of interviews, Sicco Mansholt, former European Commissioner with special responsibility for agriculture, describes the issues and the difficulties associated with his plan for a reform of the common agricultural policy (CAP).

‘Working at full stretch. And now, once again, it’s our French colleague’s turn to play us his record.’ On 4 October 1975, the German daily newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung deplores the attitude of the European Agriculture Ministers, who, despite their declarations of intent, are dragging their feet when it comes to implementing a reform of the common agricultural policy (CAP).

Am 8. April 1972 kommentiert die Pariser RTL-Redaktion das Referendum, in dem die Franzosen am 23. April über die Ratifizierung des Beitrittsvertrages des Vereinigten Königreichs, Irlands, Dänemarks und Norwegens zu den Europäischen Gemeinschaften abstimmen sollen, und fragt nach den Hintergründen der Pläne Sicco Mansholts, Präsident der Europäischen Kommission, die Gemeinsame Agrarpolitik (GAP) umfassend zu reformieren.

In diesem Interview spricht Hans-August Lücker, ehemaliger Generalberichterstatter für die Agrarpolitik im Europäischen Parlament, über die Persönlichkeit und die Arbeitsweise des Europäischen Landwirtschaftskommissars Sicco Mansholt, der im Jahre 1970 einen ehrgeizigen Plan zur Reform der gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik (GAP) verfasst hatte.

In diesem Interview schildert der ehemalige Vize-Sprecher der Europäischen Kommission Paul Collowald die Arbeit Sicco Mansholts, des ehemaligen Vizepräsidenten der Kommission, verantwortlich für Landwirtschaft, und späteren Kommissionspräsidenten, in der Europäischen Kommission.

In this interview, Georges Rencki, Head of Division responsible for the policy to modernise agricultural structures in the Directorate-General for Agriculture (1968–1977), outlines the measures proposed in the Mansholt Plan for the modernisation of agricultural holdings. He explains the consequences of the adoption of the Plan by the Council and emphasises Mansholt’s efforts to inform those working in the agricultural industry.

In diesem Interview erinnert sich Helmut von Verschuer, ehemaliges Kabinettsmitglied und enger Mitarbeiter Mansholts, an die Persönlichkeit und die Arbeitsmethoden von Sicco Mansholt.