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| 02 sep 2016 |
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Commissioner Hogan in Ireland for the Cork 2.0 Rural Development Conference
On 5-6 September Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Phil Hogan will attend the second edition of the Cork Rural Development Conference which will focus on the challenges facing farming and rural areas, and the potential policy responses.
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Approximately 300 delegates are expected to attend this 2-day European conference, which falls exactly 20 years after the first Cork Conference on Rural Development which culminated in the Cork Declaration on Rural Development. Next week's Cork 2.0 Rural Development Conference is designed to bring stakeholders together in a series of workshops, with a view to drafting a new Cork Declaration, reflecting the new challenges facing the sector in the 21st century. Commissioner Hogan will open and close the conference, with other speakers in the programme including European Parliament Agriculture Committee Chair Czesław Siekierski, the current AgriFish Council President Slovak Minister Gabrielea Matečná, and former EU Commissioners Janesz Potočnik and Franz Fischler (who hosted the 1996 conference). Starting at 14:30 on Monday 5 September, the plenary sessions of the conference will be webstreamed here. For more details and updates as the conference progresses, see the conference website.
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