"We are in Brussels with over 3 thousand farmers from Coldiretti to ask for concrete answers.
We have proposed to simplify the CAP immediately, increase the ceiling on state aid, authorize a debt moratorium on agricultural companies and remove environmental constraints which reduce food production in Europe and favor imports from other continents. This is not the Europe we want, an urgent change of pace is needed. The times of European bureaucracy are not those of businesses. We will continue to monitor Brussels for a long time, because the future of the sector is decided here".
Thus the President of Coldiretti Ettore Prandini announces the event tomorrow which will involve thousands of farmers also from other European countries such as Spain, Portugal, Belgium, on the occasion of the discussion of the EU Council of Agricultural Ministers on the simplification of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
The request to the European institutions is to give "immediate answers and certain tools to change the rules that threaten the survival of the sector, between restrictive rules and inadequate regulations that increase the costs borne by companies, depressing national production to the benefit of imports from abroad".
Starting from 10.00, in conjunction with the works, the demonstration will be held which will start from Luxembourg Station to reach Rue de la Loi, near the European Commission and Council.
Alongside President Prandini, farmers and breeders from all over Italy will gather to demonstrate their opposition to European rules that undermine the agricultural sector.
Trade associations from different parts of the European Union will also be present in the square, including Spain (Asaja), Portugal (Cap), Belgium (Fwa), who will join Coldiretti to transform the protests into concrete proposals.
In the morning Prandini will also meet some MEPs and the Minister of Agriculture, Food Sovereignty and Forestry Francesco Lollobrigida to whom the reform proposals developed by Coldiretti will be delivered.
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