SPANISH AGRICULTURE MINISTER DE PALACIO AND HER BELGIAN AND DANISH COUNTERPARTS PINXTEN AND DAM KRISTENSEN.


Spanish Agriculture Minister Loyola De Palacio (L) laughs with her Belgian and Danish counterparts Karel Pinxten (C) and Henrik Dam Kristensen (R) prior to a European Union farm ministers' meeting in Brussels November 23. A majority of European Union farm ministers on Monday voted to lift the export ban on British beef more than two years after it was imposed over mad cow disease.