Poland wants full farm subsidies in 2006

Poland's Minister of Agriculture, Jaroslaw Kalinowski, urged the EU on 11 February to reconsider its plan to limit the access of new Member States to farm subsidies. Before meeting the EU Farm Commissioner Franz Fischler in Brussels, Mr Kalinowski stated that Polish farmers should receive full subsidies by 2006.

Poland’s Minister of Agriculture, Jaroslaw Kalinowski, urged the EU on 11 February to reconsider its plan to limit the access of new Member States to farm subsidies. Before meeting the EU Farm Commissioner Franz Fischler in Brussels, Mr Kalinowski stated that Polish farmers should receive full subsidies by 2006.