EU President has the charisma of a damp rag

[Boohugh]

"Small farmers" supported by the current french government? If I remember well the most important benefactors are Doux http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupe_Doux and His Excellency Albert II of Monte Carlo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Grimaldi. Spit on them as much as you like.

I'm not saying that the CAP money does go to the small farmers, as you have pointed out it clearly doesn't. I'm just highlighting the clear discrepancy between what many French governments have said to defend CAP (that it is vital to protect the small farmers to preserve a certain way of life that is culturally important to the French) and the reality (it lines the pockets of the large commercial farmers). Even if we agree that CAP should be used to help the small farmers in France (which is debatable in itself), the current system clearly fails in that task and so should be reformed. Yet it is successive French governments who have blocked reform of CAP, why? As the system doesn't achieve what they publically say it should (protect the small farmers), there must be a private reason they don't want it to change, and so what is that reason? It is simply that if we reform CAP the French will get less money overall, as the large commercial farms which currently get most of the money wouldn't anymore, which is political suicide due to the strength of the farming lobby in France. I'm not blaming the small French farmers for this, but I am blaming every French government that has defended CAP, despite them knowing the system doesn't work, for purely selfish reasons that don't even lie in the best interests of France as a whole.

Lessons of agriculture coming from the United Kingdom? Like acknowleging cows shoud obviously be fed with sheep?

You're absolutely right, perhaps we should be doing it the French way and feed them sewage instead .