Budgetary uncertainties are complicating and delaying negotiations on the post-2020 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), EU Agriculture Ministers noted on Monday 17 December in Brussels.
Many Member States - including France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Ireland, the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Italy - have requested that the CAP budget be maintained at its current level over the period 2021-2027, while the Commission has proposed a 5% budget cut (see EUROPE 12032).
The European...