The new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) must address the challenges of climate change and water management, in the view of most European agriculture ministers, meeting informally in the Maltese capital, Valletta, on Tuesday 23 May. They were, however, divided over the tools to be used and where to draw the money needed for initiatives on water and the climate.
Maltese Secretary of State for Agriculture Roderick Galdes, setting out the main points of the debate for the press, said that...