Spain calls for more financial aid for farmers amid Russian export embargo
Tuesday, September 9, 2014 @ 5:40 PM
SPAIN is waiting to hear whether the European Union will increase compensation for fruit farmers in light of the Russian embargo on exports.
Minister of agriculture Isabel García Tejerina – who replaced Miguel Arias-Cañete in the role when he became European Parliamentary candidate for the PP – has just returned from an extraordinary farmers' summit in Brussels involving her counterparts from all member States.
For the moment, the committee is in the process of compiling detailed reports on all sectors of fruit and vegetables in the EU, whilst Sra Tejerina presented Spain's policies on agriculture and pledged her support for more decisions to be made within Europe to soften the blow of Vladimir Putin's export blockade.
So far, the EU has agreed compensation for affected farmers in Spain of 125 million euros, but Sra Tejerina has asked for more, given that the industry is expected to have lost in region of 338 million due to being unable to continue selling its produce to Russia.
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