Policies

– First pillar

these subsidies distort the economy and waste public money without delivering value to society

– Second pillar

these subsidies could promote public goods, but often they do so poorly or not at all

– Export subsidies

they hurt poor farmers abroad and provoke trade conflicts

– Milk quota

they are incompatible with the very principles of the market economy

– Tariffs

they punish the European manufacturing and service sectors and serve as a pretext for protectionism worldwide