Gathered for a high-stakes EU Council meeting, while several hundred farmers were demonstrating their anger a stone’s throw away in the European quarter of Brussels, the EU27 agriculture ministers spent a long part of the day on Monday 26 February trying to find solutions to the crisis currently affecting the Union’s farming sector.
Just before the weekend, the European Commission had presented a document setting out a series of short- and medium-term actions to take to simplify CAP...