Romania’s MEP Daniel Buda, Vice-Chair of the European Parliament’s Committee on Agriculture (AGRI), said on Tuesday that he is convinced that he will get along with Luxembourg Commissioner-designate for Agriculture, Christophe Hansen, because Hansen comes from a family of farmers and understands realities in Romania.

„I want to tell you that I have a very good relationship with the proposed commissioner for agriculture, with Mr Hansen. It is very important that he has more arguments, in fact, more assets. On the one hand, he was an MEP, he was in the environment committee and he knows very well what the concerns are, the challenges related to these aspects and also, an extremely important thing, he comes from a family of farmers, his brother was a farmer (…) He is a man who knows what the agricultural sector means, that is, he is not one who came like Janusz Wojciechowski from the court of accounts, where he dealt with some documents, not with agriculture,” Buda told Romanian journalists at a news briefing in Strasbourg.

added that he had several discussions with Hansen and that the latter „understands very well the agricultural system and understands very well what realities in Romania are.”

„That is why I need a serious debate on Romania and I’m really calling on all agricultural entities in Romania to have a permanent contact with us and to be vocal, because we are in a rather unpleasant situation: we keep complaining, but we don’t really do anything.”

Asked if he hoped to cooperate better with the Luxembourg commissioner, Buda replied: „I don’t just hope, I’m convinced, I mean I have no qualms about it.” However, Buda added that good collaboration with the commissioner-designate for agriculture is „also subsumed to internal collaboration”.

AGERPRES