Brussels, 08/05/2007 (Agence Europe) - In the evening of Monday 7 May, the agriculture ministers of the 27 EU member states reached a political agreement on the draft directive which will, for the first time, allow harmonisation of minimum rules protecting chickens kept for meat, thanks to a compromise on the most divisive issue: stocking density. The new directive will have to be transposed into national legislations by June 2010 at the latest. The German presidency is delighted to have...