EUROPE: EU to step up agricultural research
July 1st, 2009
By Alan Osborn
EU agriculture ministers and officials will return to Brussels from their August summer break to push ahead with developing a plan l from the European Commission to create what amounts to a supranational agricultural research organisation for Europe. Ministers have given unqualified backing to a call from the EU executive for such a body. While no specifics have yet been agreed, a meeting of the EU Council of Ministers has accepted that the challenges facing farmers and food companies called for joint programming initiatives, common strategic ...
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