The president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen has promised measures to support Europe’s disgruntled farmers unhappy with high costs, bureaucracy, strict environmental rules and unfair competition from cheap imports.
She said she proposed safeguards on imports from Ukraine, adding: „I’m very sensitive to the message that farmers are concerned by administrative burdens”. The farmers’ dissatisfaction has become an unofficial subject of Thursday’s EU summit amid protests in Brussels, where farmers threw eggs and stones at the European Parliament, started fires and set off fireworks.
The initial aim of the summit was to amend the multiannual common budget, which also allowed for the inclusion of a 50 billion euro aid package for Ukraine until 2027, a move Hungary is no longer opposing.
Radio Romania International
