Brussels, 21/12/2009 (Agence Europe) - On Friday 18 December, Mariann Fischer Boel, European Commissioner for Agriculture, presented a plan to enable European Union aid to be paid to Greek farmers. Greece has informed the Commission that the difficulties it is experiencing are due to delays in the introduction of requests made by farmers through the intermediary of the different associations. These delays have made the payment of direct aid for 2009 impossible.
The problem is due to the...