PSD MEP Mihai Tudose says of the negotiations that Agriculture Minister Petre Daea held with representatives of the European Commission on obtaining compensation for farmers, that he provided the necessary data and did not try to deceive them, and his fault is that “he believed in the good that I also feel in the good faith of those from the European Commission: “What else can they do, set themselves on fire there?”.

Mihai Tudose was asked on Prima TV on Saturday about the fact that the Minister of Agriculture, Petre Daea, is being criticized for not negotiating properly in Brussels, and Romanian farmers have only received €10 million in compensation.

• “Minister Daea submitted everything that was needed, that was needed. The problem is that the guys made a grid through which you could do anything. Commission.
• I am also very pleased with the position of the president. I was pleasantly surprised and that’s normal. And to forget that when he showed himself a little tougher, i.e. stopped being silent, the commission started to say: “We’ll evaluate it, let’s see, maybe not so much.” We tell you for sure that it was not very good,” said Tudose, as quoted by News.ro.

Asked if he thought it was a political split, Mihai Tudose said: “I don’t think so, I’m sure and I assume that yes, it was a political split.”

He claimed that Petre Daea was not to blame for this situation:

• “No. (…) He showed me and proved that he sent everything he needed. Mr. Daea did not think to lie that we have ten tons in the silo instead of seven. There were seven, seven sent. How many did you have last year? Well, seven more. Last year there was a drought (…)
• Mr. Daea’s fault, if any, is that he did not start the scandal earlier (…) It is Mr. Daea’s fault that he believed in the common sense and good faith of those in the Commission.
• You can’t go on like this, there’s no way. And here we prove to you that the reality is different. Guess what? No. Then there was a scandal. If I have something to reproach him and Mr. President Čolak, I told him: “Why didn’t you make a scandal earlier, Ms. Petricë?” I didn’t think something like this was possible. That is, they asked me for documents, I gave them documents.”

Regarding the statement of the member of the European Parliament from the NLP, Rares Bohdan, according to which Petre Daea does not have the authority at the negotiations in Brussels, Tudose believes that “the power at the negotiations in Brussels, first of all, should be held by the prime minister, the representative of Romania in the European institutions , that is, the president of the country, and the relevant minister, first of all, must have knowledge about the subject he supervises»:

• “If Mr. Daea did not negotiate well, in the sense that he did not say that we do not have a certain amount of wheat, that the farmers lost so much, he just went away and remained silent because the representatives of the state were in the Council. ministers in various other fields who remained silent, swallowed and signed. I know you will ask me if I am in the energy industry. Yes, to energy. I’m going back to my old friend. He was sublimely silent. Minister Daea has fought, verbally and officially denied their way of distributing the sums, but what can he do? To set myself on fire there?”.

The European Union is analyzing the possibility of supplementing European aid intended for “frontline farmers” that would allow Ukraine to export grain and agricultural products, after Romania presented a proposal to do so during an EU summit in Brussels, the president of the European Commission said on Friday. (EC), Ursula von der Leyen.

“I am grateful to Romania for submitting a proposal and offering to analyze an increase in the amount allocated to farmers in the frontline states,” said Ursula von der Leyen.

The least amount of money for Romanian farmers from the European Commission

The European Commission announced on Monday that it wants to use the crisis reserve to support farmers in Poland, Romania and Bulgaria, a reserve worth a total of 56.3 million euros, financed from the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reserve, to compensate for losses caused by increased imports of cereals and oil crops from Ukraine and limiting the impact of market imbalances. The money will go to agricultural producers in the event of a shock from the import of grain from Ukraine.

The European Commission proposed to allocate 29.5 million euros to Poland, 16.75 million euros to Bulgaria, and 10.05 million euros to Romania. At the same time, the European Commission will authorize the three states to double the allocated amounts through state aid.

Therefore, Romania receives less money than Bulgaria and Poland, although this is the main way of transit and storage of grain from Ukraine.

Romanian farmers appealed to the European Commission for a real support mechanism for farmers after the transit of grain from Ukraine, considering that the amount of 10 million euros, compensation from the Commission, does not cover the damage caused.

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