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Article: 'Cap must treat eastern European farmers fairly' ; Outgoing South West MEP Neil Parish last night called for Eastern European farmers to be treated in the same way as their counterparts in Britain, France and Germany.
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- Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)
- Article date:
- June 23, 2009
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Outgoing South West MEP Neil Parish last night called for Eastern
European farmers to be treated in the same way as their counterparts
in Britain, France and Germany.
The Conservative, who chaired the European Parliament's
Agriculture Committee before standing down at this month's election,
said the EU must radically reform the Common Agriculture Policy.
Payments for land must be the same in all EU countries, he said.
Agriculture ministers from across Europe met in Luxembourg
yesterday to begin debating how the CAP will look after its next
reform in 2013.
Mr Parish said they must end the discrepancy between the amount
of payment received per hectare of agricultural land.
Under current rules, ...