EU rejects call to limit food imports

Article reports that eFrance and Brussels clashed over the future of farming, April 2008, with the European Commission dismissing French calls to curtail food imports as self-defeating and backward-looking. The Commission was responding to a Financial Times interview with Michel Barnier, French agriculture minister.

ESO: Background information http://www.europeansources.info/record/europes-cap-the-answer-to-food-crisis/

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