MEPs want to end ‘protein deficit’ for EU livestock

Reports on European Parliament’s new resolution adopted on 8 March 2011 on the ‘EU’s protein deficit’. The European Parliament called for current trade agreements on oilseed and protein crops to be reassessed in a drive to put to an end the EU's dependency on imports for feeding its livestock.

• Primary Source

European Parliament: Report, 4.2.11: The Eu protein deficit: what solution for a long-standing problem? http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=REPORT&reference=A7-2011-0026&format=XML&language=EN

ESO: Background information: The common agricultural policy after 2013 http://www.europeansources.info/record/the-history-of-the-common-agricultural-policy/

ESO: Information Guide: Common Agricultural Policy http://www.europeansources.info/record/information-guide-common-agricultural-policy/

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