Brussels, 24/09/2012 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 20 September, the leaders of the General Confederation of Agricultural Cooperatives in the European Union (Cogeca) unanimously elected Christian Pèes from France as president of their organisation. Thomas Magnusson from Sweden and Maria Antonia Figueiredo from Portugal were elected as vice-presidents.
Pèes runs a cereals and pigmeat farm in south-west France. He is also president of Euralis, a world leading French grain cooperative. “It...