Janusz Wojciechowski is an agricultural policy veteran but he may now wonder why he sought to become the EU’s Agriculture Commissioner-designate. In his confirmation hearing before the European Parliament’s Committee on Agriculture he faced the whole panoply of conflicting political demands for the agriculture sector. Like any prospective candidate, he tried to sound agreeable and amenable to various demands by members of the European Parliament (MEP’s) but instead was accused of being unprepared and lacking answers. It is unlikely that Wojciechowski failed to grasp the issues but instead understood that there is no way to reconcile the multiplicity of competing demands. Some members of Parliament want trade agreements th...
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Gloriosa is a genus of 12 species in the plant family Colchicaceae, and includes the formerly recognised genus Littonia. They are native in tropical and southern Africa to Asia, and naturalised in Australia and the Pacific as well as being widely cultivated.[3] The most common English names are...
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