EU FARMERS SAY FEWER FARM SUBSIDIES MEANS CAP REFORM NEEDS RECONSIDERING
February 3rd, 2013
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) agriculture association has called for EU ministers to redouble efforts not to damage the competitiveness of European crop growers through the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), after heads of government cut EU farm spending by 13% for 2014-20. In these years, agricultural subsidies will consume 38% of the EU budget – Euro EUR363 billion, down from EUR417 billion for 2007-13.A spokesperson for Copa-Cogeca said it was now “more important than ever that measures to further green the CAP under reform do not increase ...
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