The need to set up the Fund of mutual help, through which the farmers affected by the climate crisis will be reimbursed, said the Minister of Rural Development and Food, Costas Tsiaras, coming to the EU Ministers and Fisheries Council.

As he underlined: “It is an issue for which we have worked methodically with my Cypriot counterpart and with Ministers of Mediterranean countries.”

It is recalled that the relevant initiative has been undertaken at Med9 levels of 9 Mediterranean European countries with the aim of ensuring the resources needed to address the consequences of climate crisis and to easily and quickly transfer the specific European resources to the people of the primary sector they will face. Extraordinary disasters.

Up to adoption of a such policyMr. Tsiaras assured that Greek government will continue to supports farmersutilizing available financial resources from the European Union, but also through the opportunities provided by national fiscal policy. “It is a critical time for the rural and productive world of Greece and Europe. We need to organize policies that will create resilience conditions, not only for the rural economy but also for social cohesion. It is necessary for the primary sector to remain a protagonist in the long time. “ The minister said characteristically.

At the same time, it stood at the importance of critical issues that will be of concern to today’s meeting. Among the main priorities are Zoonoses, the management of fishing stocks in the western Mediterranean and the regulations for the trade of agricultural products.

In detail the statement by Kostas Tsiaras:

“We are coming to the January Ministers Council of the European Union, which will consider many important issues. Zoonoses are now not only concerned with Greece, but the whole of Europe. The management of fishing stocks in the western Mediterranean is an important issue, as well as regulations in relation to agricultural products.

However, the most critical issue that will be raised in this today’s debate and explicitly raised on the Greek side is the establishment of a mutual help fund, which can compensate the rural world for the major disasters of climate change.

It is an issue that we have worked with to date with my Cypriot counterpart and with the European Ministers of the Mediterranean countries. Until then, together with the Greek farmers we will fight every possible battle and make every effort to support them, either by utilizing the financial resources of the European Union, or through opportunities provided by the fiscal practice of our country.

It is really important at this critical moment for the rural and productive world of Greece and Europe to organize policies that will create resilience conditions. This is absolutely necessary not only for the rural economy itself, but mainly for social cohesion, for the whole and expectation of every society in Europe, so that in a very long depth of the primary sector to remain and be the protagonist. ” .