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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9913

4 June 2009
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/agriculture
Informal meeting of EU agriculture ministers reveals consensus on need to review agricultural aid after 2013 and differences on changes to be made

Brussels, 03/06/2009 (Agence Europe) - At their informal meeting in Brno in the Czech Republic, European agriculture ministers agreed on the need to review the current system of direct aid after 2013, but not on the changes that had to be made. Most highlighted the need for agreement on the political priorities of the future Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) before drawing up the EU budget after 2013. Many accepted that the current way of distributing aid from the first pillar of the CAP -...

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