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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7911

26 February 2001
Contents Publication in full By article 14 / 43
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/agriculture
Double pressure on Council as it begins work, from farmers and need for budgetary constraint

Brussels, 26/02/2001 (Agence Europe) - The EU 15 Council of Agriculture Ministers opened in Brussels on Monday at 15h00, under pressure from hundreds of farmers from Wallonia (Belgium) calling for direct European Union aid in response to the crisis on the beef and veal market, but without any certainty of winning their case. Commissioner Fischler explained to a delegation of stockfarming trade unions, received before the session, that the Community coffers were empty. He recalled the...

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