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Mercado campesino al amanecer en un campo italiano con puestos de productos locales y agricultores de espaldas
Campo italiano al amanecer con un mercado campesino de productos locales, en una pieza sobre el mensaje de Meloni al foro de Coldiretti. · Imagen generada para EPM

Meloni backs farming with European cohesion, health and youth focus

Giorgia Meloni sent a video message to the Coldiretti forum because she could not attend in person.

--- The context --- Giorgia Meloni, president of the Council, sent a video message to the International Forum on Agriculture and Food convened by Coldiretti because she could not attend in person. In her message, she greeted Ettore and Vincenzo and said she wanted her greeting to reach the participants at a gathering devoted to farming and food. --- The facts --- Meloni said that, together with Minister Lollobrigida, the Government had put agriculture back at the centre of national policies with structural reforms and what she called unprecedented investment, more than 17 billion euros over 4 years. According to the president of the Council, Italian agriculture ranks first in Europe by added value, agri-food exports are breaking records and farm income has returned to growth. Meloni said that, faced with international crises, market tensions and rising costs, the Government had responded with a tax credit on agricultural fuels, relief for buying fertilisers, extraordinary support over higher fertiliser costs and suspension of European tariffs on imports of the main nitrogen fertilisers. Meloni acknowledged that more must be done and said the Government is and will remain alongside farmers. --- The positions --- On Europe, Meloni said the cuts proposed by Brussels had been stopped and resources for Italy raised to 10 billion. According to Meloni, at the latest European Council Italy held its position of not accepting that the next European Union budget reduce the Common Agricultural Policy, Fisheries and Cohesion, policies she described as essential for European strategic autonomy and a central point of the platform of the 17 member states called Amici della Coesione. --- What remains unknown --- The message does not detail how the resources cited will be distributed or which new measures will follow those already listed by Meloni. It also does not specify the timetable for the next European budget decisions or the concrete reach they will have for each Italian farm sector under the positions defended by the Government. --- Unanswered questions --- How will the resources cited by Meloni translate into concrete support for the smallest farms across Italy? Which new measures is the Government preparing after acknowledging that more must be done for farmers? Will the shared European defence of agriculture, fisheries and cohesion hold in the coming budget talks? --- EPM analysis --- The progressive framing of the message links farming with public health and generational renewal. Meloni praised the Campagna Amica per la Salute initiative by Coldiretti, which brings farmers markets inside hospitals, and promoted good eating and the Mediterranean diet as tools of prevention, according to her remarks. She also set as a goal giving young people a concrete job opportunity in agriculture. 📌 EPM Take: In EPM's view, the value of the message lies in joining farm investment, European cohesion and public health in a single agenda clearly attributed to its author. Meloni did not present those goals as finished achievements, but as work that continues alongside farmers. The test will be whether the resources defended in Europe reach the countryside, whether food prevention gains real ground and whether young people find in agriculture a possible and dignified job.
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