General policies of the European Union

preference, and financial solidarity. What are the objectives of the CAP? to increase productivity, to ensure a fair standard of living for the agricultural Community, to stabilize markets, to assure food supplies, to provide consumers with food at reasonable prices, It recognises the need to take account of the social structure of agriculture and of the structural and natural disparities between the various agricultural regions and to effect the appropriate adjustments by degrees. Economic and monetary policy The economies of the EU's Member States are becoming extraordinarily in