CDS wants to hear Minister of Agriculture in Parliament on the CAP

The CDS-PP will call the Agriculture Minister Jaime Silva, to Parliament to explain the results of the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which the Christian Democrats considered negative for Portugal.

"The minister likes to present as successes are what draws and draws what are shattered," he criticized the CDS-PP Abel Baptista, whereas the "national interest" was not "adequately foreseen in several places."

Jaime Silva said yesterday in Brussels that the main concerns with Australia that left for the negotiations of the mid-term review of the CAP were met, highlighting the "flexibility" in the use of aid.

The last round on the reform of the oldest policy - which was being discussed for over a year, during the Portuguese presidency of the EU in the second half of 2007 - began Wednesday afternoon, continuing throughout the night until have reached a compromise between the 27 and the European Commission during the morning of Thursday.

The optimism expressed by the minister is removed by Abel Baptist who points out that "Portugal will receive less than deserved, less than the European Commission proposed in the modulation of direct payments to farmers."

As for "innovations in the payments of many small farmers", he admitted that "were eased at the request of several countries," but stressed that "harm the interests of subsistence agriculture, especially in northern Portugal."

The Christian Democrat stressed that the Minister of Agriculture failed to a further extension, as what was achieved in 2003 "liberalization of the milk, scheduled for 2015.

Both organizations of farmers or the dairy farmers saw yesterday that injured left Portugal with the decisions adopted at a meeting of the reform of the CAP.