European People’s Party has committed to increasing the financing of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) by 45 billion eurosin order to compensate the agricultural sector for the damages caused by the free trade agreement with Mercosur.
This was announced in a video on social networks by the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo.who attended the summit of the European People’s Party in Croatia and boasted in his speech of having achieved this compensation for Spanish farmers.
Feijóo presented the PP as “the party of the countryside, of farmers, ranchers, and fishermen” and boasted of having “obtained effective and immediate safeguards to protect our primary sector”.
“Mercosur can be an opportunity, if done well, but we cannot allow it to be a problem for the primary sector. Mercosur has to move forward with the agreed guarantees to have our full support“proclaimed Feijóo, whose party first unequivocally supported the agreement but days later backed down to introduce the interest of the agricultural sector into the equation, which called for demonstrations in Madrid.
As detailed, safeguards for the field will be “automatic, immediate and fully operational” Before the entry into force of the agreement, European Union customs controls will be guaranteed and the CAP budget will be increased by 45 billion. “We cannot fail our field,” concluded Feijóo.
Trains and immigration
PP sources explained that, along with the protection of the countryside, their delegation in Croatia had also raised the railway crisis and immigration policy in Spain. As for the first, Feijóo asked the European Commission to “promote the clarification of the causes of one of the biggest railway tragedies in Europe” and that a “review of the use of European funds dedicated to maintaining the roads” be carried out, to find out what Adif has done with that money
Regarding the second, according to popular sources, the leader of the PP transferred his “concern” about massive regularization “without control or guarantees” that the Government is about to carry out and that “goes against European recommendations and against the regulations of the Migration and Asylum Pact“.
In that sense, he asked the European Commission to ask Sánchez’s Executive about this issue and “analyze it for contravening the European pact.” In his view, regularization will have “harmful consequences for Spain and all of Europe” because it will “cause a so-called on the southern border of the continent that will affect the entire EU”.
“The great leaders of the EU are no strangers to this and join our denunciation of this massive regularization,” said Feijóo, who stressed that the so-called Zagreb Declaration of the European PP maintains that “Solidarity without control is intolerable political negligence”.
