The “moderate” reduction in agricultural funding for the period 2021-2027, proposed on 2 May, has given rise to indignation within the circles concerned (see EUROPE 12013).
France’s agriculture minister deplored the fact that there was a “drastic, massive and blind cut” and “unacceptable measures” affecting the farm sector. The EU’s agricultural cooperatives and organisations (Copa-Cogeca) have expressed their “great disappointment”. They had argued against any...