The commissioner for the budget, Günther Oettinger, stated on Wednesday 21 February when addressing the members of the agriculture committee at the European Parliament that he “understands” their opposition to any reduction in the CAP budget as part of the EU’s post-2020 multiannual financial framework but that such reductions were nonetheless necessary. “You should then tell me where one should cut and where one shouldn’t” to “try to do our best so that a maximum of...