The agricultural ministers of the V4 countries and Croatia adopted a joint declaration on the new agricultural policy

A joint statement was adopted by the Visegrád countries’ Ministers of Agriculture (Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia) and the Minister of Agriculture of Croatia on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) on Thursday in Budapest, within the Hungarian V4 Presidency.

Sándor Fazekas Hungarian Minister of Agriculture emphasized at the press conference after the meeting: this is the first group of countries to comment on the European Commission’s proposal for the future of the post-2020 agricultural policy. The countries agreed that a strong common agricultural policy is needed, and they have supported the survival of the two-pillar structure of the agricultural policy, he said. (MTI)