In the face of the US attack on EU agricultural aid to Spanish olives, which is nevertheless classified at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) as aid that does not generate trade distortions (aid decoupled from production, classified in the 'green box'), the European Commission called, on Monday 20 June, for the EU to limit its 'orange box' aid as much as possible (aid coupled with production, generating the most distortions) as part of its post-2020 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
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