"Italian agriculture cannot accept cuts, I cannot think of asking my farmers to make sacrifices for environmental protection, for the protection of the final consumer. We are the ones that produce quality and Europe must protect our agriculture and this is what we asked European Commissioner Hogan a few weeks ago.
As far as the CAP is concerned, the attention is constant, in May there will be European lessons, there will be European steps that will put us to the test, we will see the interlocutors changed and within this context there are some issues that we will take forward as the 'labeling. A few weeks ago in the meeting with Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis we pointed out the need for some European countries to have this label indicating the country of origin of the products.
Through this system we give the consumer the possibility to choose and to know where a certain food has been produced and grown. This is fundamental for me and represents an important battle. " Thus the Minister of Agricultural, Food, Forestry and Tourism Policies Sen. Gian Marco Centinaio in his speech during the debate "The new CAP and the impact on farms" today in the Aula Magna of Collegio Ghisleri in Pavia.