possibility of goods for an inter-EU agreement forward how to expand the CAP eastwards to encompass the 10 novel member states were hanging in the balance this week as divisions persisted between member states from one side of to the other CAP financing.

possibility of goods for an inter-EU agreement forward how to expand the CAP eastwards to encompass the 10 novel member states were hanging in the balance this week as divisions persisted between member states from one side of to the other CAP financing.

The EU is committed to finalising its negotiating mandate for agriculture in the enlargement talks at the Brussels Summit, to be held nearest Thursday and Friday.

But Germany, with support from the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK is still reluctant to sign up to a deal offering direct aid payments to farmers in the 10 of recent origin member states without guarantees forward future CAP reform. ...