Brussels, 02/10/2014 (Agence Europe) - Very well prepared and armed with a multitude of files to come to his aid, Phil Hogan, the commissioner-designate for agriculture and rural development, managed his hearing well before the European Parliament's agriculture committee on Thursday 2 October. His appointment to this post was later confirmed by the agriculture committee - which had to conduct a formal vote at the request of the GUE Group.
Hogan, who is Ireland's former minister for the...