Fischer Boel: QUESTION

Currently about 40 percent of the entire EU budget -- about €130 billion ($183 billion) -- goes to farmers. Will it be 20 percent in the future? Or is it more likely to be 39 percent?

Fischer Boel: I cannot give you a specific figure. Only this is certain: The amount will decrease. Farmers would be happy to get their money from the market instead of Brussels, after all. I am convinced: Thanks to our current reforms, the time of the grain mountains or wine lakes is over once and for all.