For, at a time when there are families starving to death on every continent of the world, it is indicative of the European Union's short-sightedness that mountains of fresh produce should go to waste because it does not confirm to the rigid inflexibility of those regulations that have been thrown into the melting pot over the years.

The move to reverse this legislation will certainly help bring food costs down. It might also mean that farmers growing produce may not have to be so reliant on pesticides and herbicides to satisfy the EU's food police.

To use language that the Brussels bureaucrats might understand, this
is one policy U-turn which must not be allowed to go pear-shaped now it has been agreed.

And, continuing on the theme of food, it can only be hoped that this is just the hors d'oeuvre – and that EUpolicy-makers will now concoct many more measures which have common sense as their main ingredient. With elections next June, it might be in their interests to do so.