Reacting to the European Commission’s proposals on the Common Agricultural Policy after 2020, Karl-Heinz Lambertz (PES, Belgium), President of the Committee of the Regions (CoR), said on Friday 1 June that the drastic cuts in the rural development budget and the increase in the co-financing levels of the rural development policy “will make it impossible for farming to continue throughout the EU” (see EUROPE 12032).
CoR rapporteur on the future of the CAP Guillaume Cros (PES, France)...