De Castro: “We hope to release wheat soon, to work on stopping speculation”

“Europe’s main task is to avoid speculation and work hard diplomatically to create corridors that allow all the grain and raw materials stored in the Black Sea ports to reach their destinations.” This was stated by Paolo De Castro, S&D coordinator at Comagri of the EU Parliament, in a video message from Strasbourg to the assembly of Unaitalia, the association of Italian poultry producers. “We hope – he added – that in the next few days there will be authorizations with the cooperation of Russia, Ukraine and Turkey and with the fundamental role of the European Union and the United Nations. And I hope that the FAO with the EU can unblock this dramatic situation on food security “.” For too long we have taken food security for granted in Europe, this is not the case, – he explained – today we must really focus on a policy that can maintain an even higher level of autonomy. Europe is a great agricultural power that exports 200 billion euros, we have a global role on the issue of food security and we must be concerned about those developing countries that are experiencing dramatic conditions, in particular North Africa “.