date:Jan 04, 2013
was dragging its feet. Girling stressed that any changes required co-decision by the EC and EP. She said MEPs were not prepared to rubber stamp reforms that would damage their farmers.
While the EC had hoped to have the reforms in place by January 2014, this was unlikely because of the failure to agree budget cuts.
Martin Nesbit, director for EU and international affairs at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, even doubted that agreement would be reached by 2015.
The blunt