ROMANIANS PICK UP FOOD PORTFOLIO AT BRUSSELS
November 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
ROMANIA has been awarded the powerful agriculture portfolio in a proposed new European Commission, with former agriculture minister Dacian Ciolo?, 40, being formally proposed to take over from Mariann Fischer Boel. The announcement today by reappointed Commission president José Manuel Barroso is sure to worry supporters of a leaner Common Agricultural Policy. The French government, keen backers of production subsidies and protection, backed Ciolo?' nomination and there are strong diplomatic ties between Paris and Bucharest. Ciolo? spent long ...
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