The agriculture ministers of the EU countries requested, on Monday 27 January in Brussels, that the negotiations on transitional measures for the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) should move forward quickly to ensure the continuity of aid to farmers (see EUROPE B12407A16).
The EU Council requested the extension of the current measures, without adding new ones.
Some agriculture ministers (Italy, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Finland, Cyprus and Bulgaria) asked that the text should allow...