ROMA (ITALPRESS) – “The theme of free trade agreements meets this need”, that is to have “the basic rules of common sense banal: you cannot make free trade agreements with nations that do not respect your own standards, or lower your standard and that is not what we want to do in Italy, or you must defend the standard one because we compete on quality and have the duty to defend it”. Thus the President of the Council, Giorgia Meloni, taking part in the second edition of the International Riso Festival in Vercelli.
“In Europe we continue to fight the battle to have adequate resources to the agriculture sector – Meloni continued – Compared to the next European budget a proposal was made that cut the funds to the Pac; we restored with an Italian battle those funds, not because we think that Europe should not invest in competitiveness, but because we think that it would not be smart to consider agriculture alternative to competitiveness, precisely because the EU and Italy compete mainly in agriculture. It would not be smart to consider the competitiveness of our agriculture alternative to strategic autonomy because at a time in which we are exposed on everyone, on what we eat we are not yet exposed and we do not want to become it”.
“We must continue to fight the most difficult battle that is against the billions of euro products that are sold in the world and spread as if they were Italian, because Italian sounding is not competition is a theft to the damage of our producers that we cannot continue to allow,” he concluded.
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