Although it was not on the agenda of the European summit, the blockade with a thousand tractors in Brussels last Thursday prompted European leaders to respond to one of the farmers’ demands.
The European Commission (EC) plans to present a proposal aimed at this in the coming weeks reduce the administrative burden for farmersthe chairman of that institution, Ursula von der Leyen, announced one of the sector’s claims on Thursday.
“I am sensitive to the request to reduce administrative burdens,” Von der Leyen said at a press conference at the end of a European summit, in which she referred to many of the issues on farmers’ minds.
He explained that the Community administration will work with Belgium, which currently holds the Presidency of the Council of the EU, to present a proposal “just before the next European Council” to reduce the sector’s bureaucratic burden.
although It wasn’t on the agenda. of the European top, the protests of recent weeks, and in particular that of last Thursday in Brussels, where more than 1,300 tractors blocked the capital, have finally led to European officials reporting the situation in Europe’s countryside.
At the end of the summit, Von der Leyen held a meeting with representatives of European agricultural associations, as well as with Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo and his Dutch counterpart Marc Rutte, to discuss the situation in the sector.
Source: EITB
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