15/09/2011 (Agence Europe) - Efforts to keep food aid for most underprivileged maintained. MEPs from the governing majority in France put down an amendment on Thursday 15 September seeking to ensure the continuation of European aid for the worst off. They succeeded in obtaining the backing of the EPP Group. “We are calling for maintenance of the €500 million allocated to the programme. If the deadlock in Council continues, we will call on the Commission to find some other legal means of...