The European Commission was put under pressure, on Monday 13 June in Luxembourg, to propose extending the derogations from the cross-compliance rules for direct aid under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to the 2022/2023 marketing year, in the context of the war in Ukraine triggered by Russia.
At the EU Agriculture Council, 15 ministers welcomed the commitment of the Commissioner for Agriculture, Janusz Wojciechowski, to convince the Commission to allow derogations also in 2023, in...