EUROPEAN COMMISSION RELEASES CONSERVATIVE CAP REFORMS
November 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission today released its long awaited reforms of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), confirming it currently favours incremental change - preserving the essence of the CAP, and its food production subsidies. The policy paper (called a Communication) confirms a policy switch from the pro-market previous agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel, to her more conservative replacement Romania's Dacian Ciolo?. A Commission communiqué said the paper "foresees the maintenance of the current system ..." Indeed, Ciolo?' ...
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