In February 1969, the monthly publication Communauté européenne reviews criticism by the agricultural sector of the Mansholt Plan for reform of the common agricultural policy (CAP).

On 22 December 1969, during a meeting between the Foreign, Finance and Agriculture Ministers of the Six in Brussels, the French daily newspaper Le Monde leads with the difficult debates on the establishment of a financing system for the Community budget and calls for a system of own resources.

On 15 February 1971, discontented farmers burst into the conference room of the Council of Agriculture Ministers to show their opposition to planned reforms of the common agricultural policy (CAP).

On 15 February 1971, a number of European farmers opposed to the Mansholt Plan, accompanied by a few cows, interrupt a meeting of the 'Agricultural Affairs' Council being held in Brussels.

In February 1971, the monthly publication 30 jours d’Europe comments on a survey of French farmers’ opinions of the Mansholt Plan.

‘Dum, dum, dumped — No way through the garbage.’ In March 1971, the discontent in the European farming sector over plans to reform the common agricultural policy (CAP) proposed by Sicco Mansholt, European Commissioner with special responsibility for agriculture, comes to a head.

On 23 March 1971, a demonstration of European farmers against the agricultural reforms included in the Mansholt Plan leave one demonstrator dead and more than 100 injured.

On 29 March 1971, the German daily newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung deplores the negative impact of the reform of the common agricultural policy (CAP) on German rural areas.

In 1974, at a conference held in Austria on the economic and political situation in Europe, Otto von Habsburg, President of the International Paneuropean Union, strongly criticises the Mansholt Plan and its consequences, which he considers to be harmful for European agriculture.