PEKKA PESONEN: DISAPPOINTED THAT NO DECISION TAKEN FOR AGRICULTURAL SUPPORTS
Press Release... Faced with rapid market breakdown due to the COVID-19 crisis, EU livestock producers and their cooperatives ask the European Commission to take urgent action The outbreak and spread of COVID-19 and the subsequent measures implemented by governments to contain it have resulted in an abrupt closure of the majority of the continent’s food services. This in turn has had a marked effect on the suppliers of these services across the agricultural sector. Copa and Cogeca have gathered data from their members showing the impact that the COVID-19 crisis has on the dairy, beef, sheep and goat sector. Based on this information, several letters have been sent to the European Commission calling for specific measures to be put in place and to be financed outside the CAP budget. Pekka Pesonen, Secretary General of Copa and Cogeca stated that, “We are disappointed that no decision in support of the agricultural sector was taken at the SCA meeting yesterday. In these times that ...