Counterpoint to 'The EU budget and the CAP: an agenda for the review?' with reply by David Harvey

Ackrill, RW ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0739-1812 and Kay, A, 2006. Counterpoint to 'The EU budget and the CAP: an agenda for the review?' with reply by David Harvey. EuroChoices, 5 (3), pp. 20-25. ISSN 1478-0917

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Counterpoint - Ackrill and Kay: Professor David Harvey's proposed agenda for CAP reform in EuroChoices 5(1) is, we believe, unrealistic. It pays insufficient attention to the politics of EU policy-making and ignores the importance countries place on protecting their shares of EU spending. We recognise the incremental nature of CAP reform, but believe this can lead to significant cumulative effects. Our proposal builds on modulation to transfer more CAP spending from Pillar I to Pillar II. Farmers receiving the largest payments should have their payments cut through higher compulsory modulation rates. We also seek a reduction of EU spending on the CAP, with greater national contributions achieved through the established channel of co-financing. Reply to Ackrill and Kay - David Harvey: Ackrill and Kay (A&K) say my suggestions for national subscription, co-financing and discretion for CAP Pillar 1 spending and associated elimination of the troublesome UK rebate risk a stalemate, and that the further reform will necessarily be incremental, rather than radical. In reply, I argue that some radical reform will eventually be necessary, so that it makes sense to think about the required directions now. I also argue that my own suggestions are not so far from A&K's analysis as they seem to suppose. My suggestions seem little more likely to generate a stalemate than A&K's incremental change forecasts.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	EuroChoices
Creators:	Ackrill, R.W. and Kay, A.
Publisher:	Blackwell Publishing
Date:	2006
Volume:	5
Number:	3
ISSN:	1478-0917
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1111/j.1746-692X.2006.00039.x DOI
Rights:	© 2006 Blackwell Publishing. The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com © 2006 Agricultural Economics Society
Divisions:	Schools > Nottingham Business School
Record created by:	EPrints Services
Date Added:	09 Oct 2015 10:02
Last Modified:	09 Jun 2017 13:17
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/6608

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