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perspective, the MTR has reformed the CAP in a fundamental manner. Former commissioner of agriculture Fischer Boel has, for example, repeatedly argued that the new CAP is responsive to demands for stronger protection of the environment, safer food and improved animal welfare and is therefore, of course, worth preserving (2008, 170). Outside observers, such as Josling (2008), are more sceptical, arguing that “[u]ltimately, the CAP has proved unable to adjust to the need to modernise EU agriculture” (64). Perhaps this is also the reason why the Commission sought, and the member states agreed, to conduct follow-up reform just few years later, in 2008. 52