In a joint statement issued on Friday 17 April, the agriculture ministers of the 27 EU countries called for new measures, including market measures, to support the agricultural sector, which is struggling during the coronavirus pandemic.
In this declaration, which defends a strong budget for the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the ministers “note with concern the market impacts of the crisis in the agri-food sector, which are already significant in some sub-sectors”.
Irish Minister for...