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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9912

3 June 2009
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/agriculture
Commission to propose change in direct aid to farmers next year

Brussels, 02/06/2009 (Agence Europe) - During their informal meeting on 30 May-2 June in Brno in the Czech Republic, EU agriculture ministers debated the future of the Common Agricultural Policy after 2013, particularly with regard to changes to be made to direct payments. On Tuesday 2 June, at an Agriculture Council session on “What future for Direct Payments?”, Mariann Fischer Boel, the commissioner for agriculture and rural development, announced that in 2010 the European Commission...

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