Spain is not among the 19 countries that ask Europe for exceptional measures for the pig sector

19 countries asked the European Commission on Monday to study the activation of exceptional market measures for the pig sector under the Regulation on the Common Organization of Markets. The official request was made by Belgium last Monday at the meeting of the Council of Agriculture Ministers, with a document signed and supported by 18 other member states, among which Spain does not appear: Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Poland, Romania and Slovakia The document presented by Belgium is entitled 'Crisis in the pork meat sector' and already in its first sentence it frames the This situation points out that: The situation of the pork meat industry in Europe is critical; from there, it explains (based on the graph that we reproduce after this paragraph) that the margins of the pig meat sector in the EU They have been at their lowest point in the last decade for a year. On ...