Reaction to the Mid-Term Review proposals for CAP reform.

Reaction to the Mid-Term Review proposals for CAP reform, released in Brussels forward Wednesday, has ranged from broad acceptance to outrage.

EU farm Commissioner Franz Fischler, architect of the scheme, has set up himself in the middle of the escalating suit at law but appeared unfazed by the widespread criticism, insisting his vision of the way forward for the CAP was the right single in kind

Beckett supportive

UK Secretary of State for rural affairs Margaret Beckett was among the chiefly enthusiastic supporters of the proposals.

"I am pleased that Commissioner Fischler has kept the main ingredients of the reforms he set forward last ...