EU budget ceiling threatens union
Irish Farmers Association (IFA) president John Dillon said he is very concerned the Government has not strongly and unequivocally supported the EU Commission on the required funding level for the EU budget (2007-2013).
“The Government strategy of almost total silence on this issue may yet have a high cost in terms of cutbacks in EU rural development funding to Ireland, and also in terms of pressure on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) budget to fund the single farm payment,” he said.
