{"id":532,"date":"2005-06-13T14:58:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-13T14:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/06\/13\/the-cap-and-the-future-of-the-eu\/"},"modified":"2005-06-13T14:58:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-13T14:58:00","slug":"the-cap-and-the-future-of-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/06\/the-cap-and-the-future-of-the-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"The CAP and the future of the EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The more I try and work out how the EU budget could be made &#8220;fair&#8221;, the more confused I get. I&#8217;m going to keep working on it, but at the moment every time I find some new information or a new perspective my brain starts protesting at the apparent inconsistencies and contradictions and I get a sharp, jabbing pain just behind my eyebrows, spiking down through my eyes and curving through to the nape of my neck, where it seems to do some kind of clog dance.<\/p>\n<p>As such, have a gander at a couple of interesting pieces not by me while I crawl off to find some asprin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ostracised.blogspot.com\/2005\/06\/uk-isnt-everything-multi-speed-eu-and.html\">Osctracised from \u00ef\u00bf\u00bdsterreich on the debate over where the EU should go next<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/akatsukira.blogspot.com\/2005\/06\/debate-on-rebate.html\">Akatsuki Talks Rot on the CAP.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> Both have the benefit of not including any numbers whatsoever (well, except for the dates), and so don&#8217;t hurt my brain. And considering I&#8217;m off to see a preview of Batman Begins this evening I really, really don&#8217;t want my brain hurting..<\/p>\n<p>Update &#8211; Just noticed a couple of other relatively number-free posts of interest:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eursoc.com\/news\/fullstory.php\/aid\/807\/Use_Yr_Delusion.html\">EurSoc puts a nicely sceptical spin on the chaos, but may have a point about the rebate being a distraction<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.north-sea.net\/archives\/479\">North Sea Diaries reckons the rebate ain&#8217;t all that, girlfriend, and indulges in a bit of a Hapsburg fantasy<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The more I try and work out how the EU budget could be made &#8220;fair&#8221;, the more confused I get. I&#8217;m going to keep working on it, but at the moment every time I find some new information or a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/06\/the-cap-and-the-future-of-the-eu\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}