On Tuesday 25 September, the Austrian Presidency of the Council of the EU promised to work very hard to bring the Council to a general direction by the end of December on the proposals on the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), but admitted that it would be a tough task (see EUROPE 12101).
The EU's agriculture ministers met at Hof Castle in Austria, about forty miles east of Vienna, from 23 to 25 September for an informal meeting on the post-2020 CAP.
At a conference on Tuesday 25...