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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9668

27 May 2008
Contents Publication in full By article 12 / 29
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/agriculture
Mariann Fischer Boel defends idea of helping poor countries through EU agricultural aid that has not been spent

Brussels, 26/05/2008 (Agence Europe) - At the beginning of the informal EU member state agriculture ministers' meeting on Sunday 25- Tuesday 27 May in Maribor, Slovenia, Mariann Fischer Boel affirmed that it would be an “excellent” idea to use some of the funding that has not been used from the agriculture budget, to help farmers from poor countries feed themselves. She downplayed the effects of biofuels on price rises, described the most recent WTO statements on trade liberalisation as...

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