Arias Cañete, satisfied by the work realizar in the EU in defence of the Spanish interests

The minister of Agriculture, Feeding and Environingingment, Miguel Arias Cañete, has showed his satisfaction by the work realizar in front of the European Union during this Term of office. For the minister, “have done what had to do to defend the interests of the agriculturalists and Spanish graziers, and the things have done reasonably well”. Miguel Arias Cañete did these statements to the entrance of the Council of Ministers of Agriculture of the European Union, in Luxembourg, where has described like “exciting” the work developed during this stage. As it has commented, “they have produced meetings of the Council complicated, especially to the hour to defend the Spanish interests in the negotiations for the reform of the Common Agricultural Politics and in the Common Politics Pesquera”.

Arias Cañete has recalcado the efforts realizar to “give the turn to a reform of the Common Agricultural Politics that was radically contrary to the Spanish interests”. Besides, Arias Cañete has stood out the pact reached with all the Autonomous Communities to achieve “the type of reform that wanted”, and apply it in the territory so that the agriculturalists and Spanish graziers had a level of similar supports to the ones of the previous period.

The minister Arias Cañete beside the general secretary of Agriculture, Isabel García Tejerina, and the European commissioner of the bouquet, Dacian Ciolos.

For the minister, the negotiations in these fields have been laborious and constants, “and have required a lot of communication with the European Parliament, and a permanent contact with my European colleagues and with the commissioners of Agriculture and of Fishing”.

Therefore, “today go to take advantage of to sack me of them and appreciate them the collaboration that have kept, his sensitivity to the problems of Spain, and the long nights that have happened together in the research of solutions”. Therefore, “it is an emotionally important day”, has added. From now, Arias Cañete has ensured that goes to speak a lot of agriculture, livestock, fishing and environingingment, that is to say, “of the subjects that decide in the European Union”. In this sense, the minister has remembered that the agricultural budget is the most important game of the community budget, “that in the case of Spain affects to one million agriculturalists and graziers, and therefore it is a politics that has a lot of impact in the half rural Spanish”.