“We have a good basis, but we will be listening to the governments at next week’s European Council”, declared Commissioner for Agriculture Christophe Hansen on Thursday 11 December, following a third debate by European ministers on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) 2028-2034 (see EUROPE B13769A7).
“There is still a lot of explaining to do” on CAP reform, he added, following fresh criticism at the ‘Agriculture’ Council of the structure proposed by the Commission for the...