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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8175

20 March 2002
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/enlargement
Candidate country agriculture ministers stress entitlement to 100% direct aid

Brussels, 19/03/2002 (Agence Europe) - The agriculture ministers of the thirteen candidate countries were invited to a meeting in Brussels on Tuesday by the President of the Agriculture Council, Miguel Arias Canete, to express their views on the European Commission's strategy for the agricultural aspects of enlargement. Most candidate countries argued that if 100% direct aid were not granted, their joining the EU could give rise to distorted competition and lead to unequal treatment compared...

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