Hard to argue with that. Sometimes speedboats are better.
We have yet to see any major benefits from divergence though, so far it's pretty much only caused problems.
Disagree on the CFP. It's far from perfect but it's improving all the time and there is no alternative. The CFP has helped bring back fish stocks from the brink.
Don't know much about the CAP though, but from what I understand it's subsidising farmers to make sure we still have farming in the EU.
The CAP has been even more shit. For decades. Totally incapable of being reformed and it takes the largest slice of the budget and rewards bad farming methods and subsidises rich land owners to pollute.
It's purpose was supposed to be to feed Europeans during hard times. It's failed to do that at its first real test. Food inflation in the EU has been huge since Russia's invasion.
It is broken.
We analyzed the distribution of €59.4 billion of 2015 CAP payments and show that current CAP spending exacerbates income inequality within agriculture, while little funding supports climate-friendly and biodiverse farming regions. More than €24 billion of 2015 CAP direct payments went to regions where average farm incomes are already above the EU median income. A further €2.5 billion in rural development payments went to primarily urban areas. Effective monitoring indicators are also missing.