Brussels, 12/09/2007 (Agence Europe) - Opening the Agriculture Fair (Space) in Rennes, France, Nicolas Sarkozy, French President, called on Tuesday 11 September for the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to be recast. He promised that the French EU Council presidency during the second half of 2008 would work on modernising the policy which, as it stands, cannot, in his view, “meet the challenges of the post 2013 period”.
The French president said a response to the new objectives of the...