FRENCH CAP EUROPEAN FOOD INDUSTRY PROTECTION IDEAS BLOCKED
December 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
France's attempts to get the EU Council of Ministers to sign up in principle to a farmer-friendly and potentially protectionist Common Agricultural Policy in the long-term were blocked by Britain, Sweden and Latvia at a meeting of EU agriculture ministers last Friday. Michael Mann, European Commission spokesman for agriculture, said France was only able to present its ideas as "presidency conclusions" which did not have the force of a Council agreement even though Paris had substantially watered down its ideas. An earlier draft by ...
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