Brussels, 17/05/2016 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 17 May, most EU member states' farm ministers backed the idea of setting up an animal welfare platform, but the majority of countries insisted that the platform should be used for enhanced dialogue to improve respect of current legislation, rather than a working group putting forward new legislation.
Austria, Latvia and Poland were the only countries which protested against the creation of an animal welfare platform. A large number of member...