Fidesz rejects ‘EU proposals harming farmers’

Fidesz MEPs will not support or vote for proposals putting the livelihood of European farmers or safe and quality food production at risk, the ruling party’s MEPs said in a statement on Thursday.

Enikő Győri and Ernő Schaller-Baross said the European Parliament’s Committee on International Trade (INTA) has adopted a proposal that would extend by another year the permission for Ukrainian products to enter the bloc without quality or quantity restrictions.

“The expert commission of the European Parliament has failed farmers yet again,” they said.

The negotiating committee had failed to fulfill its mandate from the EP, which last week called for automatic protective measures to be activated if too much wheat arrived from Ukraine, Győri said. The measure is in force on other products already, she noted.

Fidesz MEP’s warning

Schaller-Baross warned that European farmers had seen their revenues plummet recently. “The EU is choosing surrender rather than competitiveness, exposing European farmers to the impossible expectations of a skewed market.”

The proposal was “forced through” by left-wing parties and the backing of the majority of the European People’s Party, the Fidesz MEPs said.