The EU’s Committee of the Region’s natural resources (NAT) commission adopted a draft opinion on Thursday 1 June calling for a “fair, sustainable and solidarity-based common agricultural policy that is economically, socially, environmentally, regionally and internationally legitimate”, in the words of rapporteur Guillaume Cros (PES, France), the vice-president of the Regional Council of Occitanie (see EUROPE 11794).
The rapporteur argued that farmers’ incomes should be guaranteed...