The European Commission has suggested that EU member states could help national poultry producers hit by plummeting prices amid a consumer bird flu scare, while not ruling out future support from Brussels.
"There are different ways for member states to help poultry producers," agriculture commissioner Mariann Fisher Boel said at a meeting with EU agriculture ministers in Brussels on Monday (20 February), according to press reports.
During the meeting, Italy and Greece repeated ea...
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