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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9793

29 November 2008
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/agriculture
Differences in Council over strengthening programme for distribution of food to poor

Brussels, 28/11/2008 (Agence Europe) - EU agriculture ministers, meeting on Friday 28 November in Brussels, were divided over the proposed strengthening of the programme for the distribution of food to the poorest in the EU. A group of countries with minority blocking (Germany, United Kingdom, Sweden, Denmark, Czech Republic) objected to the European Commission's proposal more often than not for legal reasons but also on political grounds. The other member states supported the objective of...

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