Brussels, 22/09/2008 (Agence Europe) - In Annecy on Sunday 21 September, French Agriculture Minister Michel Barnier began the debate on the tasks the common agricultural policy (CAP) should fulfil after 2013. At the conference held by the European Council of Young Farmers (CEJA), he highlighted the urgency of the need to open a strategic debate on agriculture “if we don't want agriculture to become the European budget's balancing variable”. 2009 will see the new Commission appointed and...