AGRA FOCUS interview with Helir-Valdor Seeder
15.11.2008 | Helir-Valdor Seeder | English news
This month's Interview on the future of EU farm policy is with the Estonian Farm Minister Helir-Valdor Seeder. As probably the most liberal of all of the New Member States in its attitude to public agriculture policy, Estonia is not representative of the countries that joined the EU in 2004 (or 2007) - other than in its call for uniform aid across the EU based on area, rather than on historic receipts - but Seeder's contribution to last month's Informal Council debate in Annecy on the future of the CAP underlined that the government in Tallinn is about the only NMS government with a clear and concrete for how policy should evolve. Read more
