MEPs call for smaller shift towards rural development An important feature of the last CAP reform was a decision to shift part of EU agriculture spending away from direct farm income support towards national rural development programmes, so as to support activities such as rural tourism (a policy known as "modulation").
"Nav brīnums, ka rodas finanšu krīze, ja valsts attīstība kļūst par blakusproduktu kazino attīstībā," uzsvēra Neatkarīgo spēku un demokrātu grupas priekšsēdētāja Hanne DAHL (DK).