On Tuesday, farmers will be demonstrating
again in Brussels. They are demanding guarantees to ensure that
agriculture remains viable in Europe. They also want to see a relaxation
of the reporting and regulatory regime, and for Brussels to abandon
free trade agreements with countries outside the EU.
According to conservative Polish MEP Jacek Saryusz-Wolski,
the EU establishment is applying a form of moral blackmail by saying
that in order to help Ukraine, the EU must open its borders to duty-free
trade in agricultural goods. In reality, Ukraine needs more ammunition
and money, and those are goods the EU cannot or will not deliver.
Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, Law and Justice (PiS) MEP, warns the EU is
looking to move towards free trade agreements at the expense of EU
farmers.
Saryusz-Wolski added that the EU establishment is not protecting its
farmers, especially those on its eastern flank of NATO. The money
derived from Ukrainian agricultural exports does not support Ukraine’s
budget or war effort, but instead ends up in the pockets of its
oligarchs or Western multinational companies, often registered in tax
havens.
The Polish MEP believes that what is really at stake is the dismantling of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
The main objective of the CAP was always to ensure food security for
the whole of Europe by ensuring Europe is self-sufficient in food.
However, today, “the EU’s mainstream and the industrial and financial
lobbies, especially that of Germany, want to move away from the
original paradigm to be free of the need to finance the CAP,” said
Saryusz-Wolski. The EU wants, instead, to concentrate on new objectives
such as net-zero.
Saryusz-Wolski is convinced that imports of agricultural produce from
Ukraine and South America are to replace food production in Western and
Central Europe, and that the issue of aid for Ukraine is a convenient
smoke screen towards the goal of getting rid of the CAP.
Source: Remix News
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