This article is part of our special report A busy EU-Kazakhstan agenda.
Ahead of the EU-Kazakhstan Cooperation Council on 10 May, EURACTIV spoke to an EU official to gather information about the EU’s expectations for the cooperation with Kazakhstan and with Central Asia in the years to come.
The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Mukhtar Tileuberdi is expected to come to Brussels on Monday to physically co-chair the Cooperation Council meeting with EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell.
The visit appears to mark the end of a slow period due to the COVID-19 pandemic, although virtual meetings had been held in various formats, including the EU-Kazakhstan business platform.
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This year is likely to be the one in which the much-awaited reform of the main EU’s massive farming subsidies programme, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), will see the light.
The Portuguese rotating presidency of the EU Council has made no secret of its wish to reach an agreement with the European Parliament’s negotiators by April.
“In the next six months, we will be committed to the conclusion of the CAP negotiations,” the Portuguese agriculture minister Maria do Céu Antunes told EURACTIV in an exclusive interview.
On the Parliament’s side, negotiators keep insisting that positions on the green architecture of CAP, the main bone of contention, are still very far apart.