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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9645

18 April 2008
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/agriculture
EP agriculture committee is in favour of improving aid to cotton producers

Brussels, 17/04/2008 (Agence Europe) - Cotton growing only accounts for 0.15% of EU farm production but is very important, particularly in Greece and Spain, from the economic, social and environmental point of view, the EP agriculture committee states. With the adoption on Thursday 17 April (27 votes for and 5 against) of the report by Ioannis Gklavakis (EPP-ED, Greece), the members of the committee corrected the initial proposal (which dates back to 9 November 2007, see EUROPE 9540) to the...

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