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Agriculture Ministry sets up working group to define priorities of EU’s Common Agricultural Policy after 2020

March 22, 2017

Romania is joining the efforts to simplify and upgrade the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to define its future priorities after 2020 by establishing a technical working group at the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MADR). According to a press statement by MADR, the group is made up of officials of the MADR, […]

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