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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8256

17 July 2002
Contents Publication in full By article 12 / 43
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/agriculture council
Despite powerful coalition believing Berlin mandate has not been respected, Fischler can count on support of four countries plus Presidency that want CAP to be fundamentally reformed

Brussels, 16/07/2002 (Agence Europe) - Although a powerful coalition of nine Member States (France, Spain, Belgium, Italy, Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Austria and Luxembourg) formed during the public debate at the Agriculture Council in Brussels on Monday afternoon to block the draft mid-term review of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) which they felt ran counter to the spirit and the terms of the 1999 Berlin mandate from heads of state, Commissioner Franz Fischler saw that he could count...

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