FRENCH PUSH FOR EUROPEAN TARIFF WALL TO PROTECT FOOD INDUSTRIES
November 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) agriculture ministers will fly to Brussels this Friday and be presented with a French blueprint for the future of the common agricultural policy (CAP) that will suggest erecting high tariff barriers around the EU union to protect its food industries. France, currently EU president, will use the growing recession to argue its case for what it terms 'community preference': code for erecting duties to keep out foreign food. The debate will focus on the shape of the CAP after 2013. A French government statement looked for "a ...
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