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At a meeting of EU farm ministers in Brussels on Monday, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain all expressed grave doubts over the viability of the plan, and questioned its conformity with the bloc’s internal market rules. ”I don’t think that we can expect a compromise or a consensus over the next couple of months -- a great deal more work is going to have to be done,” Belgian agriculture minister Sabine Laruelle, who chaired the meeting, said afterwards.