On 22 May 1992, the British left-wing daily newspaper The Guardian speculates on the genuine ability of the European Community to reform the common agricultural policy (CAP).
In 1986, Eisso P. Woltjer, Member of the European Parliament and specialist in agricultural issues, comments on the importance of the agricultural expenditure provided for in the Community budget.
On 8 February 1983, West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher gave a speech to the European Parliament welcoming the agreement setting out the common fisheries policy.
‘Oh Zeus, those were the days when You were still a bull!’ On 6 December 1983, following the Athens European Council, the cartoonist, Horst Haitzinger, illustrates the significance of the budgetary imbalances in Europe and the difficulties involved in adapting the common agricultural policy (CAP).
In 1986, reacting to the difficulties facing the European agricultural market, the German cartoonist Hanel portrays the need to reform the common agricultural policy (CAP).
On 16 June 1980, the German weekly magazine Der Spiegel describes the critical situation of the European agricultural market at the beginning of the 1980s.
In November 1980, Bernard Auberger, French Inspector General of Finance, publishes an article in the monthly publication Revue du Marché commun in which he calls for a reform of the current common agricultural policy.
On 27 February 1984, the German weekly magazine Der Spiegel considers the fallout from the political crisis which threatens the European Economic Community (EEC) if the Ten fail to agree on the funding of the common agricultural policy (CAP).
‘The building of the Tower in Brussels.’ In 1981, the German cartoonist, Walter Hanel, takes an ironic look at the establishment by the Ten of the common agricultural policy (CAP) which is proving to be as complicated as the construction of the Tower of Babel.
‘The difficult ascent of the euro-obstacle.' In 1986 the cartoonist Behrendt gives his view of the difficulties in which the common agricultural policy (CAP) finds itself.
