It seems unlike Europe obstinately in a form of fanatical dogma

The glas of milk quotas has sounded and nothing seems to trigger their appeal for clemency. The protests of multiple producers or the difficulties of businesses. Nor the new circumstances created by world overproduction of milk or that the formidable impact on the agri-food industry of the outbreak and then the collapse of the raw materials. The agricultural Europe committed resolutely on the path of liberalization. It confirmed the public disengagement of the management of the markets for the health check of the common agricultural policy (Cap), end of 2008, at the time, pressed by the crisis, public power resumed the hand, with cash and credits to banks, by entering in the capital of major financial groups...

Fantastic tool for public management of the European dairy market, adopted quotas in 1984 did not celebrate their 30th anniversary. Their disappearance is scheduled for April 1, 2015, despite the great services rendered by this system. Would the memory of European policies be so short that they have forgotten the benefits of quotas on the very expensive mountains of butter and powder accumulated in the 1980s with incentives to productivity Have they lost sight of the contribution of these regulatory factors with the melting of the stocks, extraordinarily expensive for the Community budget Person only remembers the treasures of diplomacy, commercial prowess and the character specious of contracts in the past with the Russia Communist to eliminate millions of tonnes of butter, rancid, because he specifically stayed too long in the fridges Europeans Has it forgotten that, in addition to the production control and the return to a form of reason in the matter, the quotas have protected producers against the dizzying drops in prices A form of smoothing, comfortable for those who must go into debt in the long term.

Then why this stubbornness, confining to the hard therapeutic to see the salvation of the dairy Europe in the abolition of quotas, agricultural Europe in smoking cessation all market management tools Why refuse a form of pragmatism in the US Cantors of the law of the market and liberalism in all crins before the international trade, the United States have never retreated before returning to the coaching of their agricultural policy when conditions suddenly returned. Without ever to embarrass contradictions of their speeches and lessons to protectionist Europe in each round of negotiations of the world Organization of the trade (WTO). It seems unlike Europe obstinately in a form of fanatical dogma. The idea is that it is in a liberalised framework, outside any management tool markets, agricultural trade work best.

The thesis is essentially in the countries of the North, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Denmark... the position of the Germany is less clear and varies according to the records. The charge against the quotas was largely sounded by these countries, where the idea prevails that should minimize the number of producers constitute the dairy units the largest possible and so that they are at the peak of competitiveness in the global competition. Quotas are having acquired a value, the countries of the North saw a reason to condemn them, because they have become an investment required to expand... They are also seen as a source of unnecessary spending, while investments in modernization would prove better profitability.

Whatever it is differences in dogma, arguments for or against liberalism, and whatever passions triggered by these debates, reality remains, immutable, resolutely support the framework of agriculture: its exposure to climatic hazards, natural disasters and health accidents, which prevents to treat this sector of the economy as all the others.