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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10219
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/agriculture council

Agreement on retention of common agricultural policy twin pillars after 2013 - Differences over future allocation of direct aid

La Hulpe, 21/09/2010 (Agence Europe) - EU agriculture ministers, at their informal meeting in La Hulpe, near Brussels, on Tuesday 21 September, agreed that, after 2013, when the current EU financial framework expires, the two pillars of the common agricultural policy (CAP) - direct aid and market expenditure in the first pillar and rural development measures in the second - should be retained. Member states were divided mainly on how the aid should be allocated, with the so-called liberal...

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