EUROPEAN COMMISSION RELEASES CONSERVATIVE CAP REFORMS

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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