Brussels, 04/10/2010 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission is about to decide on the 2011 programme of food aid for the needy in the EU. Next year, 20 member states will use the scheme - with the Czech Republic participating for the first time. Originally designed to provide surplus stocks of farm produce (“intervention stocks”) to needy people, the scheme was amended in the mid-1990s to make it possible to supplement intervention stocks with market purchases in certain...