European agriculture must be farmer-oriented
Competitiveness, crisis management, sustainability and the knowledge-based economy will be on the agenda of the six-month Hungarian presidency of the Council of the European Union starting July 1, with the aim of making European agriculture farmer-centered, the Hungarian Minister of Agriculture emphasized on Monday in Brussels.

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István Nagy, speaking to journalists after the council meeting of the agriculture ministers of the member countries, emphasized that the European Parliament elections due on June 9th “have a huge stake”, namely that it is possible to force Brussels to make a radical change of direction, so that farmer-centeredness finds its place and role in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) as well. . “We expect from the elections that Europe will return to the ground of normality. We must protect the interests of the farmers, as we are protecting the value of the citizens of Europe, as we can guarantee them daily food security,” emphasized the Minister of Agriculture.
He stated: the European Union does not guarantee the protection of its internal market, a lot of Ukrainian agricultural products continue to arrive on the markets of the European Union
A solution is needed, as the amount of dumped Ukrainian agricultural products is displacing the grains from traditional European production, István Nagy pointed out, and then he emphasized: we should not allow the European farming community to be held responsible for the entire climate change either. With regard to climate change, farmers should be made interested and not scapegoats, he emphasized. “We expect the European Union to finally protect European farmers. We cannot betray them and leave European farmers alone. All other interests cannot be more important than the interests of European farmers. This threatens food sovereignty and food security throughout the European Union,” said the head of the ministry. He emphasized that farmers must be supported in order to be able to carry out developments with appropriate technological tools that will enable them to successfully continue their fight against climate change. “The Hungarian presidency is preparing for exactly this, as it wants to implement a farmer-friendly agricultural policy, where competitiveness, crisis management, sustainability, the knowledge-based economy and farmer-centeredness will be on the agenda,” he said. The stake of the election on June 9 is therefore whether we can “take off” the shackles from the agrarian sector, which the “reckless and unfounded” European Green Agreement, the green ideology imposed on them means, and which completely destroys them. New foundations and new rules are needed, which the Hungarian presidency represents excellently, namely that competitiveness, crisis management, farmer-centeredness, the knowledge-based economy and sustainability should be what frames the period of the common agricultural policy after 2027 – he added in his statement Istvan Nagy.
MTI
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