{"id":8342,"date":"2020-04-04T13:38:48","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T13:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.incirliseviye.com\/?p=8342"},"modified":"2020-04-04T13:38:48","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T13:38:48","slug":"romanian-pleases-agriculture-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/?p=8342","title":{"rendered":"Romanian pleases agriculture committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"art\"><\/figure>\n<header>\n<h1>Romanian pleases agriculture committee<\/h1>\n<p class=\"subhead\">Commission candidate did not emerge from hearing as a champion of reform, but he showed a mastery of detail.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<footer class=\"meta\">\n<p class=\"byline\">European Voice<\/p>\n<\/footer>\n<footer class=\"meta\">\n<p>\n\t\t\tBy\t\t\t<span class=\"byline\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"vcard\">Simon Taylor<\/span>\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"timestamp\"><time datetime=\"2010-01-15T06:47:59+00:00\">1\/15\/10, 6:47 AM CET<\/time><\/p>\n<p class=\"updated\">Updated <time datetime=\"2014-04-12T18:56:58+00:00\">4\/12\/14, 6:56 PM CET<\/time><\/p>\n<\/footer>\n<p>Dacian Ciolo\u015f, Romania\u2019s candidate for the European Commission, today managed to wow members of the European Parliament\u2019s agriculture committee, demonstrating in his nomination hearing that he has been dealing with the intricacies of the Common Agricultural Policy for the past 12 years and has experience of farming dating back before that.<\/p>\n<p>Ciolo\u015f will, though, have disappointed reformers and budget disciplinarians \u2013 but such MEPs are hard to find on the Parliament\u2019s agriculture committee. <BR><\/p>\n<p>Back in November, when the portfolio was allocated to Ciolo\u015f, there was surprise that someone from a country with a poor record of managing EU funds had been entrusted with a portfolio that receives the second-largest share of the EU\u2019s total budget. But today Ciolo\u015f showed fluent mastery of the detail of the EU\u2019s agricultural policy, as well as astute judgment of the political forces at play \u2013 qualities all the more important at a time when the appetite for ambitious reform of the Common Agricultural Policy has all but disappeared and has been superseded by concern&nbsp;about protecting farmers and their incomes. <\/p>\n<p>Ciolo\u015f spoke mostly in Romanian but switched to decent French and reasonable English when MEPs asked questions in those languages. <\/p>\n<p>In the eyes of MEPs, he started well by welcoming the changes introduced by the Lisbon treaty giving MEPs full co-decision powers over agricultural policy for the first time. \u201cWith Lisbon, you are now fully involved in decision-making on this policy. I will build my strategy by taking into account his new reality,\u201d he said. He praised the committee\u2019s members as representing the diversity of European agriculture, which he wanted to preserve, he said. <\/p>\n<p>In his answers, Ciolo\u015f steered a careful, balanced course between stressing the role of the market and need for measures to protect against market failures. \u201cIt\u2019s not my intention to go for liberalisation willy-nilly. We have to use it to make agriculture more competitive,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed the importance of protecting farmers against price volatility, but said this should not involve reverting to old-fashioned market-management mechanisms. \u201cWe cannot afford a crisis that will affect the stability of entire sectors or that can result in a drop in farmers\u2019 incomes,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Click Here: <a href='https:\/\/www.storerwc.com\/new-zealand.html' title='New Zealand rugby store'>New Zealand rugby store<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quizzed repeatedly about the recent problems faced by dairy farmers, he ruled out reversing the decision to abolish milk quotas. Quotas protected against supply fluctuations, he said, but not against fluctuations in demand, which had been behind recent problems in the dairy sector. He said he would consider new instruments to make conditions more stable for farmers, such as income guarantee funds.<\/p>\n<h4>Fact File<\/h4>\n<p><H3>DACIAN CIOLO\u015e<\/H3><br \/>\n<P>Agriculture<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Nationality: Romanian<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Political Affiliation: EPP<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Previous job: head of committee on agriculture<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Age: 40<BR><\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>Stooping&nbsp;to conquer<\/STRONG><BR>Ciolo\u015f was not above flattery. Welcoming the full co-decision powers MEPs have gained over agricultural policy with the Lisbon treaty, he pledged: &#8220;I will build my strategy by taking into account this new reality,&#8221; and he praised the committee&#8217;s members as representing the diversity of European agriculture, which he wanted to preserve.&nbsp;<\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>In need of inspiration<BR><\/STRONG>Ulrike Rodust, German Socialist MEP: \u201cTowards the end of the session it\u2019s hard to come up with new questions.\u201d <BR>Ciolo\u015f: \u201cAs it\u2019s difficult to come up with new questions, it\u2019s hard to come up with new answers.\u201d<BR><\/P><\/p>\n<p>He also faced questions about the power of large retailers and the relative weakness of producers, to which he responded by saying he was in favour of boosting the negotiating position of farmers. He promised to speak to his colleague due to be in charge of competition policy, Joaqu\u00edn Almunia, about possible exemptions from competition rules to help producers.<\/p>\n<p>Crucially for MEPs, he promised them that he would fight to maintain the share of the EU\u2019s budget for support for farmers and rural areas. \u201cIf it were just up to me, I can assure you we would have a lot more money,\u201d he said. He promised that he would come up with new criteria to decide how direct payments are allocated to ensure a fairer distribution among member states and farmers. When asked to follow up with more precise details, he declined, saying that he would work with MEPs on new criteria.<\/p>\n<p>Summing up, Paolo de Castro, the Italian MEP who chairs the agriculture committee, said: \u201cWe were very pleased with your replies.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Ciolo\u015f received a loud and extended round of applause from MEPs, making it clear that the next commissioner for agriculture will be Romanian.<\/p>\n<p><H3>Performance at hearing<\/H3><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<BR><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<footer class=\"content-credits\">\n<h6>Authors:<\/h6>\n<dl class=\"vcard\">\n<dt class=\"credits-author\"><span class=\"vcard\">Simon Taylor<\/span>&nbsp;<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romanian pleases agriculture committee Commission candidate did not emerge from hearing as a champion of reform, but he showed a mastery of detail. European Voice By Simon Taylor 1\/15\/10, 6:47 AM CET Updated 4\/12\/14, 6:56 PM CET Dacian Ciolo\u015f, Romania\u2019s candidate for the European Commission, today managed to wow members of the European Parliament\u2019s agriculture &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/onhee.com\/?p=8342\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Romanian pleases agriculture committee&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}