CIOLO? PREPARED TO FIGHT TO PRESERVE EU FOOD SPENDING
January 1st, 2011
BY KEITH NUTHALL
The European Union's (EU) agriculture commissioner wants to preserve or even increase EU food spending beyond its current Euro EUR44 billion-a-year whileEU national governments implement austerity cuts. In a debate yesterday (January 13) at a European Parliament policy challenges committee meeting DacianCiolo? said he wanted this year's oncoming proposals on reforming the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to include maintained funding. "We have provided for a very ambitious proposal for the future...CAP. The budget should be at the same ...
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