Minister ‘must ensure no further concessions’
Padraig Gibbons, president of the Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (ICOS), said the agreement to end all forms of export subsidies by the end of 2013 would present a serious challenge to Irish agriculture.
He said Agriculture Minister Mary Coughlan must ensure that agriculture is not sacrificed by the EU to get progress on industrial and service access to developing markets. She must also ensure that EU Agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel delivers on her weekend statement that “there would be no changes to the CAP before the end of 2013”.
