Hungarian government slammed the EU’s agricultural policy again

“Farmers should again be in the focus of the European Union’s agricultural policy,” István Nagy, the minister of agriculture, said on Thursday, adding that the matter would be high on the agenda of the Hungarian EU presidency in the second half of the year.

In the next cycle the contribution of farming to efforts against climate change should be calculated “with regard to the fact that European farmers guarantee the security of food supplies and ensure fundamental public services to all citizens of the community”, the ministry quoted Nagy as saying after talks with Janusz Wojciechowski, European commissioner for agriculture.

“Food sovereignty must be made part of the EU’s strategic sovereignty,” the minister said.

Europe’s farming sector “must be relieved of the extreme and wishful green ideology forced upon it in recent years… There can be no greater offence to European farmers than saying that they are the most responsible for climate change,” Nagy said. “Just the opposite is true, because they suffer from it and it is farmers that do the most to sustain our created world,” he added.