Many EU agriculture ministers expressed concern in Sofia, Bulgaria, on Tuesday 5 June at the proposed cut to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) budget for the period from 2021 to 2027. The 5% reduction proposed by the Commission is being challenged by several member states.
Meeting in Bulgaria on 4 and 5 June for their six-monthly informal Council, ministers consulted their calculators and began to give their reactions to the Commission’s legislative proposals on the CAP after 2020 (see...