The EU presidency hopes that the voice of farmers will be heard in the CAP and Mercosur.

The Cypriot ambassador to Madrid, Michalis Ioannou, discusses, in an interview with Efeagro, the priorities of the Cypriot presidency of the EU semester. Cyprus, which holds the six-month presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU), hopes "that the voices of the farmers will be heard in the negotiations of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and in the agreement with Mercosur," according to the Cypriot ambassador in Madrid, Michalis Ioannou. The ambassador has analyzed, in an interview with Efeagro, the agricultural priorities of the semester, among which stand out the negotiations of the budget and the CAP, as well as the agreement with Mercosur, issues that have sparked protests from farmers and ranchers. The presidency aims to advance "as much as possible in the CAP files" and in the negotiations to "achieve a partial general orientation" in the Agriculture Council in June, to facilitate a commitment as soon as the agreement between the EU leaders on the financial ...