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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9389
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/agriculture/trade

Peter Mandelson finds Community agricultural expenditure less legitimate today

Brussels, 19/03/2007 (Agence Europe) - On the sidelines of the European business summit last Friday, Peter Mandelson stated that it is less legitimate than previously that such a large proportion of the Union's budget is given over to agricultural expenditure. “I feel that allocating such a large proportion of our budget to agriculture was legitimate only a few years ago”, said the trade commissioner, before going on to state that the Union was to review the Community budget in order to...

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