Brussels, 19/03/2002 (Agence Europe) - The EU's agriculture ministers reached political agreement in the evening of 18 March to extend (from 2002 to 2004) the premium and threshold scheme for tobacco farmers. To achieve this, the Spanish Presidency prepared a compromise proposal preserving most of the aims of Franz Fischler's initial proposal, looking after the interests of tobacco-growing countries and taking into account the concerns of most of the delegations that want to move towards...