Geography For Schools

The original aims have on the whole been met. Price support and intervention helped reduce Europe's reliance on imported food.

However the support also led to over-production, and the creation of "mountains" and "lakes" of surplus food and drink.

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The Community also taxed imports and (from the 1970s onward) subsidised agricultural exports. These policies have been damaging for foreign farmers, and made Europe's food prices some of the highest in the world.

European leaders have been concerned about the high cost of the CAP as early as 1967, but radical reform began only in the 1980s and 1990’s.