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Agricultural associations want a lasting agreement for the CAP

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Brussels, Jun 25 (EFE) .- (Camera: Leo Rodríguez) Dozens of members of agricultural associations from all over Europe, gathered under the union of the two great European organizations Copa-Cogeca, gathered this Friday in Brussels, in front of the European Parliament, to ask for a lasting agreement for the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union (EU).FOOTAGE OF THE PROTEST IN BRUSSELSSOUNDBITES FROM Gonzalo Corrales, director of the Brussels office of the Union of Small Farmers and Ranchers (UPA), and Pedro Gallardo, vice president of COPA and of the Agrarian Association of Young Farmers (Asaja).CORRALESthe partial agreement is "a relief", especially in the area of national strategic plans, the central point of the new reform. The eco-schemes are fine, as long as there is sufficient profitability that allows the farmer to continue doing his activity, which is none other than providing food, "he explained.GALLARDOWe need a time horizon of a few years to give us a certain security," claimed the vice president of COPA and the Agrarian Association of Young Farmers (Asaja), Pedro Gallardo, who asked that this horizon be at least ten years.And he assured that said agreement, in addition to being long-term, "cannot go against the interests of farmers", for which he assured that he prefers a "no agreement" to a "bad agreement", which does not give "certain guarantee to the farmers to be able to continue with their exploitations ".

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