The Social Democratic Party (PSD) condemned, on Friday, the decision of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE) to mandate Romania's representative in COREPER to vote in favor of the EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement, in the absence of clear clauses guaranteeing that Romanian farmers will be protected from imports from Latin America.
"PSD firmly condemns the decision of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to mandate Romania's representative in COREPER to vote in favor of the EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement, in the absence of clear clauses guaranteeing that Romanian farmers will be protected from imports from Latin America. PSD considers that this decision represents an act of betrayal of the interests of Romanian farmers, especially under the conditions in which the PSD Minister of Agriculture, Florin Barbu, has signaled on several occasions that signing the agreement without these guarantees will strongly affect Romanian agriculture. It is outrageous that the USR Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Economy approved the Memorandum on the EU-Mercosur Agreement, without even consulting Romanian farmers and without taking into account the objections formulated by the Ministry of Agriculture", according to a press release sent to AGERPRES by PSD on Friday.
PSD representatives asked Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan to clarify whether he was aware of and approved the mandate received by Romania's representative in COREPER in relation to the EU-Mercosur Agreement.
"In this context, PSD announces that it will use all the levers and all the procedures existing at the level of the European Parliament to amend the EU-Mercosur Agreement in order to protect the interests of Romanian and European farmers. We cannot have fair competition on the European market if we accept the import of products made without the constraints imposed on European farmers regarding food safety, environmental protection, animal welfare and the pesticide use regime," the social democrats also said in the statement.
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