The French Minister of Agriculture, Didier Guillaume, formally presented, on Monday 28 January in Brussels, a seven-page document on France's position in the negotiations on the post-2020 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
The negotiations “must not lead to a weakening of the common mechanisms guaranteeing the proper functioning of the internal market”, France stresses. This new CAP should “support the transformation of the sectors” (by merging coupled aid and operational...