Examination of Witnesses (Questions 178
- 179)
WEDNESDAY 12 JULY 2006
RT HON
DAVID MILIBAND
MP, DR SIMON
HARDING AND
MR ANDREW
LAWRENCE
Q178 Chairman: We are going to move
on to talk about an area where a bit of magic needs to be put
in, and that is the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy.
Secretary of State, let me just ask you, in the eight weeks you
have been in post, what do you think the purpose of the Common
Agricultural Policy is now?
David Miliband: Is or should be?
Q179 Chairman: You can answer it
whichever way you like. Should be would be more acceptable.
David Miliband: Sometimes it is
quite difficult to answer the question about what it is in diplomatic
terms, but in terms of what it should be, I think it should provide
a framework for agriculture in the European Union, a regulatory
framework and a financial framework for agriculture in the European
Union. That is in simple terms what it should provide.
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