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El ministro Arias Cañete considera la PAC como una prioridad para EspañaThe minister Arias Cañete considers the PAC like a priority for Spain
12 January 2012
The minister of
Agriculture, Feeding and Environment, Miguel Arias Cañete, has marked the reform of the PAC like “political priority of prime importance” for Spain and has defended that it keep the endowment for Spain inside the Common Agricultural Politics (PAC) that appeared in the Financial Perspectives. “For the Spanish Government the budgetary endowment of the PAC can not reduce concerning the figures that appeared in the proposal of financial frame that the European Commission has put on of the table”, has explained Arias Cañete.
During his meeting with the commissioner of Agriculture and Rural Development, State Ciolos, celebrated in the headquarters of the Commission in Brussels by space of more than an hour, the minister of Agriculture explained to Ciolos that “the PAC needs of a very important support and that the agriculturalists and Spanish graziers and Europeans can not see reduced the current levels of help in a moment in that the chains agroalimentarias do not work properly and when they are increasing the costs of production”.
In this sense, the minister has explained, in statements to the means to the term of the meeting, that the Spanish Government “considers preferable that close first the budgetary debate for like this know the available resources and that afterwards close the debate on the PAC, because the course in parallel can drive to situations no wished in the supposed that there were not sufficient resources, supposed that the Spanish Government goes to combat so that the agriculturalists have the necessary budgetary resources”.
Miguel Arias Cañete, that is the prime minister of the Government that displaces to Brussels to open the bilateral diary of meetings with the European Commission, has manifested that “the model of reform of the PAC proposed no adecua to the Spanish economic reality neither to the reality of the Spanish agriculture”. By this reason, Arias Cañete has invited to the commissioner Ciolos “to visit Spain to know closely the reality of the Spanish field”.
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