(ANSAmed) - ROMA, 12 FEB - A step change is needed in the
EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to meet the demands of
protesting farmers, Italy's farm ministry said Monday after
meeting one of the farmers' groups who are still driving their
tractors around the country after many groups stopped doing so
after the government passed some measures to placate them at the
weekend.
"It's time to make a step change in the common agricultural
policy by simplifying the issuance of aid, averting financial
cuts, and saying enough to the shame of subsidies for not
producing," said Farm Undersecretary Patrizio La Pietra after
meeting a delegation from Riscatto Agricolo (Agricultural
Redemption) for two hours at the ministry.
"After years of choices dictated by radical
pesudo-environmentalist logic we want to change EU policy and we
want to do so in perfect synergy with those living and working
in the fields," he said.
Riscatto Agricolo said it had been a "positive" meeting.
(ANSAmed).
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