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The economic crisis has lead to falling demand for EU dairy exports. (Photo: European Commission)

CAP 'health check' not open for debate

European commissioner for agriculture Mariann Fischer Boel has issued a robust defence of reforms to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) agreed last year - a series of changes Brussels calls the CAP 'health-check', saying the current crisis in the dairy sector was no excuse for a return to a more interventionist policy.

"I am not going to re-open the agreement that we made in the health-checK. I hope this is clear enough so we can stop this blurred discussion that is sending totally th...

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The economic crisis has lead to falling demand for EU dairy exports. (Photo: European Commission)

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