An illustration referred to as, initially, in opposition to the subsequent multiannual monetary framework of the European Commission, to which the query of Mercosur was then added. In Brussels, throughout European Council of 18 December, a thousand tractors – due to this fact slightly below ten thousand farmers, coming from Belgium, Italy, Spain, France and Germany – organized themselves to make themselves heard in opposition to the proposal to “put the common agricultural policy in a single fund” with the funds and packages of the cohesion coverage of the European Social Fund.
Laureti: «The points have overlapped»
This explains it Camilla Laureti, PD MEP within the Agriculture Committee, answerable for agricultural insurance policies and vice-president of S&D. Because, as regards the commerce settlement with Mercosur, “the issues have overlapped”.
The issues of the framework
The foremost level, due to this fact, was the Commission proposal, which “means -20% of resources in the next programming – says Laureti – In Italy there would be around 8 billion euros less”. Furthermore, he explains, there’s the facet that it’s the Member States who resolve how a lot to provide to agriculture and the way a lot to provide to cohesion insurance policies. This creates two points: one political and one substantive. The substantive one issues the truth that we can have inequality, as a result of we can have international locations that can make investments extra in agriculture and fewer in cohesion insurance policies. Then, there’s the facet of the nationalization of the widespread agricultural coverage, which is known as widespread agricultural coverage exactly as a result of it impacts all European states in the identical manner. Instead, with the choice of the member states it’s as if you happen to gave everybody the chance to resolve how a lot and the right way to spend these funds”.
«Risk of eliminating Regions, local authorities and administrations»
Another aspect is that «with this system get rid of the Regions, local authorities and administrations, because the decision lies with the Member State in conjunction with the European Commission. And it is negative because they represent the antennas in the territories.”
The Mercosur query
The occasion was additionally a possibility to speak about Mercosur, whose signature has been postponed to January. “It is an agreement of historic importance, it concerns over 700 million people”, particularly now, with “the closure of the agricultural sector with Trump’s tariffs”.
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