The European Parliament will discuss the problems of farmers who have protested in several European countries on Wednesday at a plenary session in Strasbourg, PNL MP Daniel Buda said in Strasbourg on Monday, Agerpres reports.

European Parliament, Strasbourg, as the President of the Commission reads the State of the Union, September 2023.Photo: Jean-Francois Badias/AP/Profimedia

The request to organize the debate was submitted by PNL MEP Daniel Buda, who is the vice-president of the Commission for Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI) of the European Parliament.

“I am very happy about this change of agenda, which happened as a result of my request, because I wanted to discuss this issue at the level of the European Parliament, because, in my opinion, the agricultural sector at the European level is in an extremely difficult and difficult situation, and it can to know the solution only at the European level,” Buda said at a briefing for Romanian journalists in Strasbourg.

The MEP noted that farmers need European money, because otherwise “they will not be able to face the challenges they face today, regardless of whether we are talking about drought, inflation, floods, the war with Ukraine, etc., these are serious challenges, they are challenges, which ultimately put them in trouble and they need to get an answer from the European Commission.”

On the other hand, Buda said, referring to some of the demands of farmers who are protesting in Romania these days, “these issues can be resolved, in my opinion, at a government meeting, because they are not the main issues, they are not necessarily issues money in mind”.

Debates in the EP on the issues raised by farmers will not be accompanied by the adoption of a resolution, as there is no time required to agree on a common text. However, says MEP Daniel Buda, this approach is important.

“I’ve been asking the European Commission for two years to provide financial resources to the agricultural sector. I’m not saying I’m happy about these protests, because I hate to see people on the streets sitting at minus 10.” – 15°C (…). But I want to believe that in a few months the European Commission will find financial resources that will be allocated to farmers in such a way as to support their activities, because by supporting farmers, we are actually supporting consumers, we are supporting all of us (…)” – said Daniel Buda, reports Agerpres.