The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas, will present today to the regional councilors the package of measures in response to rural protests that he announced last Thursday to agricultural organizations, including the flexibility of the CAP and the control of food prices.
It will be within the framework of a consultative meeting that the minister has called with the regional officials to prepare the council of EU Agriculture Ministers on the 26th. There Planas plans to defend that the Union applies some of the measures that it has presented to the agricultural centers. such as the establishment of mirror clauses in commercial exchanges with third countries or the reinforcement of the European customs union.
The Spanish minister has asked the regional governments to be actively involved in making various measures that he has proposed to farmers and farmers who are also within his competence a reality. These include the surveillance and inspection of food prices and compliance with the Food Chain law, as well as monitoring the application of the CAP. “I’m going to accept and listen” to his suggestions, Planas said Friday. “And I will also give them homework.”
In parallel, the mobilizations of farmers and ranchers continue. Next Wednesday, a large tractor unit led by Unión de Uniones is scheduled to arrive in Madrid to protest before the Ministry of Agriculture. The same place will be the concentration point of another mobilization led by COAG, Asaja and UPA to protest on February 26 while Planas meets in Brussels. Until that day, road closures and mobilizations will continue throughout Spain.
