Poland, speaking also on behalf of the Hungarian, Slovak, Lithuanian, Bulgarian and Romanian delegations, drew the attention of the Council in Brussels on Tuesday 18 July to the issue of land availability for farmers in the European Union. Practices such as speculation and excessive concentration of farmland are making it ever more difficult to find available land (see EUROPE 11750).
In particular, Poland emphasised the need to consider access to land as an overriding public interest and to...