Poland would consider backing Great Britain's drive to reform the European Union's costly Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in exchange for 60 billion euro in the bloc's 2007-2013 budget, dpa reported. Poland's new right-wing Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz told Poland's liberal Gazeta Wyborcza daily E.U. newcomer Poland was inclined to back Britain's controversial push for CAP reform in return for the guaranteed sum in the future spending plans. With its large traditional farming sector, France has vehemently opposed any moves to reform the CAP, a scheme of subsidies for farmers which accounts for nearly half of the annual spending of the 25-member state European Union. Free market advocates complain the CAP scheme is a monumental waste of resources.
