Farmers are causing new incidents in Brussels with hundreds of tractors on the streets as the 27 EU agriculture ministers meet to discuss the crisis in the agricultural sector that has led to months of protests across Europe.
Farmers are not satisfied with the measures being taken and are calling for extra care for the primary sector.
Farmers are throwing their produce in the street, setting fires and trying to reach the Council building while police are using pressurised water to drive them away.
Farmers have kicked off again in Brussels, Belgium. pic.twitter.com/pO0xCj4EPz
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For slow pace on the part of Europe and “reflexes that do not respond to the problems” of the farmers, the Minister of Rural Development and Food, Lefteris Avgenakis said that Greece is determined to move with all its “forces”, so that “so that those issues that can be corrected in the current CAP 23-27 before the European elections, to be achieved immediately”.
🇪🇺 Meanwhile in Brussels, right next to the European Commission:
Water cannon versus slurry cannon.
Hundreds of farmers demonstratepic.twitter.com/khqHy68zWG
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In particular, Avgenakis said coming to the meeting of the Ministers in Brussels:
“Following the initiatives of the Heads of State and of course our Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis last week, we are continuing at the level of the Ministers of Agriculture and Fisheries.
#Farmers are back #Brussels pic.twitter.com/66NTHHNqRA
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The European People’s Party (EPP) meeting and the EUMED meeting have been completed, alliances that we are making the most of, so that our country’s 19 points of proposal can be strengthened even more and we can gain more allies.
It is certain that Europe is moving slowly.
It is certain that their pace and their reflexes are not up to the problems of European farmers.
But we as a country are determined to move with all our strengths so that what issues can be corrected in the current CAP 23-27 before the European elections can be achieved immediately, without any delay.
This is the direction in which my presence today at the ministerial meeting is moving.
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This is how we will proceed, this is how we will try, through the alliances that we have created or that we are maintaining and strengthening, to achieve the best for European farmers.
In this effort, we will of course move in a coordinated way for the next CAP, which will be discussed in about a year and, as it seems, perhaps a little earlier, we do not miss the opportunity to use all the data to achieve the best for Greek and European farmers.
As ERT reported earlier, ministers have already announced that they accept the European Commission’s proposals for easing administrative burdens, as well as some exemptions for farmers.
Under an urgent procedure, this message will be forwarded to the European Parliament where an opinion is expected between 22 and 25 April.
