Regarding community agricultural policies, we made a request to the 27 member states aimed at collecting all the suggestions for improvements, simplification, flexibility and flexibility.
We have received 500 proposals". "We will analyze them: we have sent them to the Commission and we hope that the responses obtained will be sufficient". David Clarinval, Belgian Minister for Agriculture, said this for the current Belgian presidency of the EU. "Today - he added - we will examine the European Commission's proposals to respond to farmers' requests".
As for the demonstrations underway in Brussels, "aggression is not a good way to negotiate. We understand the farmers' anger, we also understand that someone is in a difficult situation, but aggression has never been a source of solutions. Negotiation is the best way,” he said.
Confagricoltura, EU agricultural policy must be totally rewritten
The EU agricultural policy (CAP) "must be totally rewritten" because "it does not address the real problems" of the sector.
The interventions proposed so far by the European Commission "do not bring any benefits".
This was said by the president of Confagricoltura Massimiliano Giansanti on the occasion of the meeting of the confederation's assembly which is taking place today in Brussels where the demonstration called by the tractor movement at European level is also underway while the meeting of the Council of Ministers is taking place of EU agriculture.
"This is the time for proposals and not protests", observed Giansanti regarding the possibility that the European institutions, in particular the Commission and Parliament, can address the problems on the table before the June elections.
For its part, Confagricoltura presented its European interlocutors with a 60-page document in which it collected his vision to proceed with an in-depth review of the CAP.
Confagricoltura's request to move towards an incentive system aimed at strategic production, overcoming the current one which does not take market needs into account, fits into this context.
But also the need to return to negotiating international agreements at a multilateral level, in particular at the WTO, to find points of balance between the major competitors on the global agri-food scene.
All this without losing sight of the need to build a model of rules to guarantee fair prices to producers and consumers.
As for Italy's role in the next European Commission, Giansanti hoped that the future Italian commissioner could have the vice-presidency, collecting the delegations for the climate.
And he warned against the "devastating" effects that the entry into the EU of an agricultural superpower like Ukraine could have on the sector in the absence of adequate compensatory interventions.
Coldiretti, stop bureaucracy and income measures
Stop the bureaucracy and the increase in costs that damage Italian farmers;
increase aid to companies to counter the crisis and the increase in interest rates;
guarantee a moratorium on debts, strengthen the European directive against unfair practices;
permanently cancel the obligation of uncultivated land.
These are just some of the proposals of the Plan presented by Coldiretti during the event in Brussels.
Thousands of farmers, in a procession, led by the national president Ettore Prandini, are reaching the European Parliament, on the occasion of the Council of Agricultural Ministers on the proposal to simplify the CAP.
“We are here - explains Prandini - to ask for exhaustive answers within certain times to the needs of our companies and to dismantle those regulations that make no sense.
For this reason we have implemented constant mobilization work, but also direct relations with the European institutions.
A large organization like Coldiretti has the duty to transform the protest into concrete proposals, in the awareness that most of the crucial battles for the future of our campaigns are fought precisely in Brussels". For this reason, the president highlights, "we have prepared a document also on the CAP for the next few years, which must be simple and in line with the needs of businesses.
We must say enough to the contrast between agriculture and the environment desired by Timmermans, farmers are the first environmental protection".
The measures were anticipated by Prandini in a letter to the president of the EU Commission Ursula Von der Leyen.
The national delegate of Coldiretti Giovani Impresa, Stefani Parisi, the organization says, will be the only Italian to participate at 2.30 pm, together with the young delegates of 10 other organizations present in Brussels, in the meeting with the EU Commissioner for Agriculture Janusz Wojciechowski and with the current president of the Agrifish Council, David Clarinval.
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