Former EU agriculture commissioner Franz Fischler has said plans to overhaul the bloc's common agricultural policy remain "vague" and fail to protect the region's part-time farmers.
The Austrian politician, who ran the EU's agriculture department between 1995 and 2004, said he broadly supported the commission's CAP reform communication, published last November, but signaled improvements were possible.
"The paper got the aims of the future common agricultural policy right. When i...
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