FRANCE CAP
November 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLFRANCE'S prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin has signalled that his government is weakening its insistence that his country should implement reforms to the European Union's (EU) Common Agricultural Policy two years after other EU Member States. The French government had negotiated the right to replace production-linked subsidies with direct payments to farms in 2007, compared with 2005 elsewhere. However, in a recent meeting with French farmers, Raffarin said that if they agreed, the CAP reforms could be "introduced in France earlier than ...
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