On the morning of Wednesday 21 October, the agriculture ministers of the EU countries reached a ‘general approach’ on the texts amending the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
This position was achieved by a comfortable qualified majority. Only Lithuania voted against, while Romania, Bulgaria and Latvia indicated that they would abstain at the time of the vote.
“We have set a milestone towards a systemic change in the CAP. It is a balanced compromise. In addition, the CAP budget will...