CAP pressure intensifies on Walsh

Luxembourg: The pressure on Agriculture Minister Joe Walsh to clinch the best deal possible for the dairy industry in the CAP reform negotiations intensified yesterday.

Farm and agri-business leaders warned that the sector faces a major threat from the Fischler proposals and world trade talks.

As EU farm ministers began what could be the final round of CAP negotiations in Luxembourg, the dairy industry claimed there was an unprecedented threat to farm incomes and to the sector's development.