Saturday, July 31, 2010

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An interesting editorial in the Guardian shows us the paradoxes of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP): Some examples of individuals who received lavish subsidies from the EU are staggering.
Here are the most "interesting": Martinique Rhum Saint James the company produces a decent range of drinks on an island 4000 km from France, which did not prevent him receiving last year, more than one million euro in agricultural subsidies. In the list of the 174 that receive aid from French millionaire also appear several producers of bananas. Elsewhere, smaller amounts went to a Swedish club accordion, a Danish pool, the 26 year old daughter of former Bulgarian Minister of Agriculture (which has grossed more than 700,000 euro), Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (almost one hundred thousand euro) .

Everyone agrees that the Common Agricultural Policy, which costs € 50 billion a year, so as it does not work. Publicly, all promising reform. In private, however, are hunting because they can draw from. The result is an economic and environmental disaster. Small farmers struggle to survive, as evidenced by the report of December 2009 on mountain, while large agrarian societies share the proceeds of the CAP, in particular the producers of sugar. These are all among the biggest beneficiaries: 144 000 000 French St Louis Sugar and 42.9 million by the German Südzucker.

These anomalies are blown into the limelight thanks to the work of a small organization (farmsubsidy.org), which has hidden data recovered from the 27 EU governments and made available to them online. The result on the one hand strengthens the cause of those who say that the CAP must be eliminated, the other confirms it is impossible to do so. Too many people benefit because it will reach an agreement to change this state of affairs. Jose Manuel Barroso, European Commission president, had promised to reform "without taboos or restrictions." Last year was presented a draft that represented a retreat from a real change. It was too early to "determine the boundaries or the exact intentions of future reforms," \u200b\u200bthe document concluded. Ultimately, the governments of member states are not strong enough to resist vested interests.
We just have to wait in the reform of 2013, but the prospects are not rosy.

Luca Bernardini, Slow food

Monday, July 19, 2010

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Snapshot of the Bel Paese

In a country plagued by mismanagement, widespread corruption, budget gaps, unemployment, excessive power of the mafia and so on, to address the issue of waste dumped on land, you figure bigots dedicated to the futile bon ton.
Yet nothing better than this phenomenon, describing the civil and cultural backwardness of this country.
steep cliffs and beaches of cigarette butts, dimples road filled with all kinds of waste, processed slopes in landfills for scrap metal and wreckage, none of that now arouses public indignation.

If (rarely) this argument overlooks the headlines in newspapers or TV has only to stigmatize, with adverse electoral purposes, the inertia of this or that government, guilty of not cleaning up with sufficient alacrity.
are never singled out the only real charge: that those citizens and merry rogues, cowards and arrogant, shallow and ignorant that the majority now live in the Italian peninsula. All
fact contribute to keep this away from the multitude of rude reproach:
From a television and a publisher who Auditel live and appeal to a political class that pursues only polls and consensus, an economic system for which there are no citizens but only consumers. Consumers
to cuddle and cajole, or befuddle and disinformation, to mislead and harass, but never, under any circumstances, to blame. Why
criticism and reproach generate awareness and consciousness of self, the soul were to be avoided like the plague in this bizarre, depressing country.

photo: Via Aurelia, Maremma, on the route of the trans tourism, a business card of the Bel Paese

With apologies to the small minority of good, honest Italian citizens who resist, resist, but in his state of exception can only prove the rule ...