EU: COLDIRETTI, GOOD NOMINATION OF FITTO AS COMMISSIONER AND VICE-PRESIDENT.
The appointment of Raffaele Fitto as the new Executive Vice President of the EU Commission and Commissioner for Cohesion and Development Policies is important for Italy also to ensure effective use of European funds towards innovation and growth. A role that according to the letter of appointment also strengthens the competitiveness and sustainability of the agricultural, food, fishing and tourism sectors. This is the comment of Coldiretti after the presentation of the new executive of the European Union by President Ursula von der Leyen.
The hope is that Fitto’s great experience can contribute to a general change of pace in the approach of European policies also with regard to the agricultural sector.
In this regard, Coldiretti extends its best wishes for good work to the entire executive, starting with the new Commissioner for Agriculture and Food Christophe Hansen (Luxembourg), who will work under the supervision of Vice President Fitto, ensuring full availability for a constant discussion on policies for the sector. The union of the delegations of agriculture and food is important, in particular, because it highlights the centrality of food security and sovereignty as an integral part of the European one, since a strong agricultural production is essential to reduce the vulnerability of Europe, as requested by Coldiretti.
It will now be essential to translate into concrete facts the openings that came after the Coldiretti mobilizations in Brussels to ask for a decisive change with respect to an ideological approach that has caused serious damage to the entire agricultural world.