The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has committed this Wednesday to strengthening the food chain law, which prohibits sales at a loss, in response to the efforts that agricultural organizations are carrying out these days in Spain due to the situation in the countryside. . Specifically, he has referred to implementing reciprocity in the conditions of agricultural imports – the well-known mirror clauses -, simplifying the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and facilitating adaptation to European regulations.
During the first control session of the year in the Plenary Session of Congress, the deputy spokesperson for ERC, Teresa Jordà, has urged the Government to impose mirror clauses on imports of products from third parties, “relax” bureaucratic requirements or correct the Law of the Chain so that there is economic sustainability in the countryside.
At this point, Sánchez has promised to strengthen the Chain Law and the implementation of the mirror clauses, while reiterating his “absolute willingness and dialogue” with the producers to whom he has shown his “absolute empathy.” “. During another intervention, in response to Vox, Sánchez rejected that the recipe for the protests is “climate denialism” and “anti-Europeanism.”
The farmers’ protests have continually crept into the Government control session and the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, in an intervention has assured that the “problem” of the farmers “is not only in Brussels but also in the government benches”. He has justified this by the fact that the central government “tells farmers who waste water, that the water pact can wait, that this CAP is a ‘wonder’ or that the VAT on meat and vegetables cannot be lowered.” fish”.
For his part, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas, has described as an “intelligent and timely” measure the announcement by the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, to withdraw the proposal to reduce the use of pesticides in the European Union. In addition, Brussels plans to reduce emissions by 90% by 2040 but leaves out the agricultural sector for now.
