Thalheim corrected: No departure from the reorientation of agricultural policy
Secretary feels misunderstood
"I am surprised at the press response to an article in the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, in which I spoke to the necessary budgetary savings in the agriculture budget and the restructuring of agricultural policy," said the Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Consumer Protection, Dr. Gerald Thalheim. In the literal quotations only known positions were reproduced. So he had courted understanding of the inevitable savings because subsidies would be reduced.