desfilhes ยท 09 February 2018
For the first time, a French President sent a worrying message concerning the only real European policy, the agriculture. The possibility to see its funds amputated could be serious and damaging, not only for farmers but also for European sovereignty. Socrates was reported to have stated, "A politician who doesn't know cereals markets is not able to influence the city."
In Europe, the most straightforward solution when it comes to discussing financial issues is to propose to withdraw money from the cap budget.

With the decreasing political power of farmers across Europe, due to the fact that millions of farms have disappeared during the last 30 years, they have simply lost their political weight. Who genuinely cares about the fate of farmers?

Since WTO, the main EU budgets' resources haven't come anymore from taxes but from finances paid directly by member states.
EU has lost its own capacity to collect money and taxes and this opened the door to renationalization of the discussion concerning EU. As we have seen in France, in the UK and in a lot of other countries, the politician who knows how to add and to subtract two figures can elaborate a discourse concerning Europe. In the end, the debate is resumed to a simplistic "Are we net contributors, or not?"

One of the elements which could favorize an intelligent and useful debate on the EU budget and EU future would be to think over a way to reestablish its own budget resources and to expand it in order to develop other sectors which also need more European Policies which could regroup their energy and design ambitious future goals.