Food production will become unprofitable in the EU, as will car production, writes Beata Szydło. The politician is sounding the alarm over changes in EU legislation.
“Will Europe literally starve? The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, today announced with great joy the adoption of a report, the content of which could soon become EU law. The report concerns new regulations for European agriculture and was prepared by a completely undemocratically elected body called the Strategic Dialogue on Agriculture,” Beata Szydło wrote on the X website.
The MEP adds that Peter Strohschneider, a colleague of the head of the European Commission, became the head of this body “by accident”. The result of the work of these people is a document that suggests the introduction of a number of drastic solutions that will ultimately “destroy European agriculture”.
ETS in agriculture
Szydło points out that the idea of introducing an ETS system, i.e. emission rights, in agriculture is particularly dangerous. “Farmers will have to pay for the emissions generated by their equipment and by… farm animals. We know where this will lead. Food production will become unprofitable in the EU, as will the production of cars, for example,” she wrote.
The former prime minister further argues that this in turn means that countries that are major producers and exporters of food, such as Poland, will no longer be so.
Furthermore, Europe will become dependent on food supplies from outside the EU. “This will cause price increases and, above all, bring us the danger of food blackmail. Depriving Europeans of their own agriculture is the road to an unimaginable catastrophe,” Szydło argues.
There will be no reduction in agricultural taxes
During farmers’ negotiations with Minister Czesław Siekierski, it was agreed that in 2024 the agricultural tax rate would be reduced to the level of the previous year. In mid-March, the deadline for payment of the first tax bracket passed. Farmers then paid the rate planned for the current year. The Minister of Agriculture then promised that “the tax will be reduced by the fourth tranche because it has increased so much.”
Farmers protested, among other things: against the European Green Deal. After several weeks of demonstrations, Brussels decided to bow to the demands of European food producers. In the published draft amendments to two regulations, the European Commission proposed, among other things: abolishing the 4 percent fallow arable land, the choice between diversification and rotation, simplifications regarding soil cover and changes to the scope of sanctions related to conditionality.
However, as reported by “Tygodnik Poradnik Rolniczy” Ultimately, farmers will have to pay the full tax amount in the amount set for 2024. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has withdrawn the bill to reduce the compensation rate from the list of works of the Council of Ministers.
Source: Do Rzeczy
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