UPA - Thousands of farmers and stockbreeders convened by agrarian organization UPA moved this Thursday, November 22, in Spain to demand "a European Union budget fair, adequate to the importance of our work." From the organization regret that the reform of the CAP is "totally alien" to the interests of Spain, denouncing the "brutal" budget cuts
Boletin Agrario - After the different meetings held during the first day of the Extraordinary Council of Heads of State of the European Union which takes place in Brussels, Commission President Herman Van Rompuy has unveiled a new budget plan that increases agricultural aid by 7,700 million euros and territorial cohesion funds at 11,000 million euros.
Unió de Pagesos - The farmers union Catalan sees "clearly unfair" cuts in European agricultural funds proposed by Herman Van Rompuy that they value, "would be added to those already mentioned by the European Commission's proposal for CAP reform." UdP regrets that the proposal of the President of the European Council "means a reduction to 2011 level prices for European funds in direct payments and CMO"
UCCL - The United Farm Workers of Castile and Leon (UCCL) requires to Mariano Rajoy the utmost firmness in the defense of CAP budget "if he do not want see hundreds of farms in Castile and Leon disappear". This organization view with tremendous concern "that farmers and ranchers are, again, a bargaining chip in negotiating EU budgets"
COAG - According to data analyzed by the technical services of COAG on the basis of the official EU proposals for financial programming 2014-2020, Spain could lose 16% of the agricultural according the Van Rompuy's proposal, while with European Commission proposal the cut would be 11%. Under the worst scenario trading Spain would receive 1.139 million less per year
SEAE - "The compromise proposal of Van Rompuy to the EU budget 2014-2020 dramatically cuts rural development and environmental services and does not address key challenges". That is the valoration of ""the Spanish Society of Organic Agriculture about latest proposal to reduce the EU budget for 2014-2020 PAC that will be debated this week in Brussels
Sustainable Development / Rural Development
REDER - The Estatal Network of Rural Development from Spain considers the measure proposed by the current president of the European Council as "nonsense come from the northern states of Europe, that expect the Mediterranean countries will be limited to offer sun and sand to holidaymakers." REDER also notes that Andalucía, Castilla-La Mancha and Galicia could lose their status as territories of convergence
UPA - UPA complaint which, if successful the initiative of Herman Van Rompuy to reduce in 25,000 million euros EU funds for agriculture and rural development, "the system of European food production, which feeds more than 500 million people and employs tens of millions of citizens,would be in serious danger"
ASAJA - ASAJA considers that Spain should reject clearly "the claims of the Cypriot presidency and Van Rompuy to laminate the European agricultural budget" in the next Summit of Heads of State from 22 and November 23. In that case Spain would line up with France, recalls ASAJA, which has already been shown frontally against the proposed tax cut of the community budget