Minister tells EU CAP’s the limit

ANY world trade agreement that requires a further reform of the Common Agricultural Policy would amount to a broken promise, Agriculture and Food Minister Mary Coughlan warned the National Forum for Europe yesterday.

She told the forum in Dublin that such a development would undermine confidence in a key European policy.

Now more than ever is not the time to undermine such policies, as confidence in the European Union has been rocked by recent negative constitution votes in France and the Netherlands, she said.