Extensive livestock sector interests concentrated in the UK Ireland and France are complaining clamorously about the prospect of dramatic production sculptures if European Commission proposals for subsidy 'de-coupling' as part of the CAP midterm review go on foot ahead as planned.

Extensive livestock sector interests concentrated in the UK Ireland and France are complaining clamorously about the prospect of dramatic production sculptures if European Commission proposals for subsidy 'de-coupling' as part of the CAP midterm review go on foot ahead as planned.

unless European farm chief, Franz Fischler, is annoyed at what he describes as doom-mongering, and earlier this month fired facing a retaliatory broadside at those who have said his reforms could lock up down the Irish beef industry and make British roast beef a rarity.

According to Fischler, panic-stricken grassland livestock farmers (and the family they supply) have much to