Despite progress having been made on some reform issues, EU Ministers for Agriculture were of the opinion in Brussels on Monday 18 March that they were not yet ready to negotiate a political agreement on the post-2020 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in the near future (see EUROPE B12214A27).
The Romanian Presidency of the Council of the EU wanted to bring the European Ministers for Agriculture together in June around a general approach regarding the proposals to the post-2020 CAP....