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.
Table comparing the French and the Dutch governmental projects for the organisation of agricultural markets in Europe (the Pflimlin Plan and the Mansholt Plan, respectively).
On 4 October 1950, the Dutch daily newspaper Het Vrije Volk speculates on the prospects for the establishment of a common agricultural market in Europe.
In 1969, the German Ministry for Agriculture analyses the implications of the Mansholt Plan and sets out its ideas regarding the establishment of a future common agricultural policy.
‘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 13 December 1968, the French daily newspaper Le Monde describes the angry protests provoked by the Mansholt Plan which advocates a root-and-branch reform of agriculture within the European Economic Community (EEC).
In November 1969, the Dutch European Movement’s monthly publication Nieuw Europa comments on the position taken by the Netherlands Minister for Agriculture, Petrus Josephus Lardinois, on the subject of the Mansholt Plan.
