01/12/2010 (Agence Europe) - COPA wants strong first pillar to be maintained. At a meeting with the Belgian Presidency of the EU Council of Ministers on 29 November, EU agricultural unions and cooperatives (Copa-Cogeca) “urged” European ministers “to maintain a strong first pillar” in the new common agricultural policy (CAP). “We welcome EU Farm Commissioner Dacian Cioloº' desire to have a strong CAP after 2013.” However, the new Commission proposal for compulsory “greening”...