European Commission proposals to be published next month are set to defend the bloc's interventionist Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) post 2013, but will also propose a reformed system of payments including a ceiling on the largest handouts.
"Withdrawing public support would lead to greater concentration of agricultural production in some areas … while less competitive areas would face marginalisation and land abandonment," reads a draft copy of the upcoming commission communication s...
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