Brussels, 25/04/2007 (Agence Europe) - EU farm ministers are bracing themselves for tough talks at their meeting in Brussels on 7-8 May over the plan to phase out maize aid. The German presidency's draft deal foresees scrapping all public purchases of maize in the 2009/2010 marketing year but there is not yet a qualified majority of member states in favour of the compromise, as was seen at the 23 April special agriculture committee (SAC) talks. The European Commission initially suggested...