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Abstract
In spite of the successes of the common agricultural policy so far government criticism and that of consumers and even of farmers as well as changing economic conditions and the changing agricultural situation, lead one to examine whether alternative solutions to the common agricultural policy are possible. After having examined in turn and critically free exchange with the rest of the world, the European free exchange zone, and then autarcy, the writer concludes that these 3 hypotheses would transform an active, expanding form of farming into an assisted declining form which would affect the whole of the economy. The writer suggests therefore that farm prices and the balance of markets should be stabilized and that the main means of achieving this would be the levying of a balancing tax on substitution products and that the FEOGA budget should be adapted to the whole of the Gross EEC Product.