FISCHER BOEL RESISTS FRENCH AND GERMAN SIREN SONGS
July 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
YOU have to hand it to matronly white-haired European Union (EU) agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel. She really sticks to her guns over CAP (common agricultural policy) reform. While many of her colleagues are abandoning their Brussels posts as the current Commission's mandate sputters to an end in October, this 66-year-old Dane is not only staying, but resisting Franco-German pressure to undo liberalisation reforms, especially on the dairy sector. The French and the Germans - so often the voices of stagnant conservatism in the EU - ...
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