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	<description>The European Union is reforming the Common Agricultural Policy. European farm labour force should be ruled by a refreshed CAP, supposed to fit new European challenges, by the end of 2008.</description>
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		<title>Press coverage of CAP health check</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 11:20:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not too bad as it is only proposals from the Commission (so only draft, not more!!).. Only check UK broadsheets. zero in the Guardian one in the Telegraph but very very broad, focus more on tensions between France and the UK one in the Independant, much better than the previous one two in the Times, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oliviahottat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3059594&amp;post=29&amp;subd=oliviahottat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Clash!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 21:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[future of the CAP]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On one hand, Mariann Fisher Boel the initiative designed to make sure that the CAP is fit for the challenges and opportunities of today and tomorrow. read more On the other hand, belgian farmers &#8220;La commissaire persiste et signe dans une voie ultra-libérale&#8221;, commente le directeur de la Fédération wallonne de l&#8217;agriculture, Yvan Hayez. Et [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oliviahottat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3059594&amp;post=28&amp;subd=oliviahottat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CAP Health Check, here you are!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 10:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ clip made by the EU which came with the Commission&#8217;s proposals. It is not to do propaganda but I think it&#8217;s quite well made! The catchword of the CAP health check is LIBERALISM; less interventionism, more farmers&#8217; initiatives. It concretely means (according to the EU): abolishing set-aside rules requiring arable farmers to leave 10% of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oliviahottat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3059594&amp;post=30&amp;subd=oliviahottat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Food crisis, a reason to keep the CAP</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 08:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nowadays, climate change always hits the headlines and worries more and more people. But since a short period of time, another issue has grabbed them&#8230; FOOD CRISIS! As food prices are increasing incessantly, every single people is concerned by this worrying issue. According to Franz Fishler, the former European commissionner of agriculture, these two issues could [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oliviahottat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3059594&amp;post=27&amp;subd=oliviahottat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Danish way to organic food</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 21:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here below you can watch two videos reporting Danish views on the CAP reform. Denmark, well-known as environmentalist, seems to want to cut down subsidies, or at least convert them to environment-friendly fund. The first one (made by Euronews, an independant pan-European channel) is an interview of the Danish minister on agriculture. The second one (made by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oliviahottat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3059594&amp;post=24&amp;subd=oliviahottat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don’t stop subsidies</title>
		<link>http://oliviahottat.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/don%e2%80%99t-stop-subsidies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 23:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although food prices are dreadfully high, the French minister for agriculture, Michel Barnier, claimed that the CAP should be a model for Africa and Latin America. Let notice that France which receive the higest amount of subsidies for agriculture will assume the EU presidency in July! “What we are witnessing in the world is the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oliviahottat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3059594&amp;post=23&amp;subd=oliviahottat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Modern wines!</title>
		<link>http://oliviahottat.wordpress.com/2008/05/01/modern-wines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 03:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  The European Union walks straight away to modern wines! On Tuesday, EU ministers for agriculture adopted the wine reform which will enter into force on August 1.   The guidelines are not blurry at all. The member states and their wine makers will have three years to modernize, to grub-up and to restructure their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oliviahottat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3059594&amp;post=20&amp;subd=oliviahottat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rural development programmes</title>
		<link>http://oliviahottat.wordpress.com/2008/04/30/rural-development-programmes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Few days ago the European Commission (to be accurate the rural development committee, and in few weeks the Commission) agreed on the Rural Development programmes of three regions in Spain (click here for the press release). The rural development policy represents a big part of the CAP Health Check. Therefore let’s take a peek in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oliviahottat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3059594&amp;post=16&amp;subd=oliviahottat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Selling the health check in Wales</title>
		<link>http://oliviahottat.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/selling-the-health-check-in-wales/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Mariann Fisher Boel had to convince Walsh farmers – mostly women – of the legitimacy of the CAP Health Check this Monday (click here to read the speech).   She referred to the fussy topic, market support instruments, as a “safety net” instead of a “price setter”. Once reformed, these instruments will be more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oliviahottat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3059594&amp;post=15&amp;subd=oliviahottat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Have your say!</title>
		<link>http://oliviahottat.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/have-your-say/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:35:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hurry up! Less than one month to take part in the consultation on the CAP (end around May 20). Your voice should be taken into account if you write down your opinion on Mariann Fisher Boel&#8217;s blog. You don&#8217;t need to be an expert in the CAP and it concerns everybody. To understand a little [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oliviahottat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3059594&amp;post=12&amp;subd=oliviahottat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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