Food prices are unjustifiably growth in the European Union and especially in the Balkans, so that the Bulgarian Ministry of Agriculture has decided to establish a row store, which will have a maximum margin of 10 percent and sell Mali Bulgarian products.
The Bulgarian government has provided about five million euros in the initial capital for about 1,500 “stores for the people” which will mostly open in the poorest and agricultural areas.
There, the Bulgarian Minister of Agriculture Georgi Tahov explained, inflation the most difficult hence the population that can spend less and less money on food.
The goal is also to primarily domestic food and agricultural products as directly, without large intermediaries, deliver to consumers.
Media in the EU and the Balkans have transferred consumer associations and producers to grow food prices significantly reduce citizens’ salaries, not only in the Western Balkans, but also in Bulgaria, Greece and Croatia.
The general conclusion of consumer associations and producers in the EU is that food prices grow, farmers get less money for their products, and profit is increasingly going to the cash registers and speeches of supermarket.
And in the European Union, say the citizens of Belgium – where food prices have been grown very much for the last couple of years – in border areas almost all supplies and food procure in France and Germany.
In the Balkans, everyone knows that many products in neighboring countries are cheaper, and foods are not only for citizens of Serbia, but also Slovenia and especially in prices in Trieste and the surrender are full of Slovenian and Croatian customers every day.
The French government recently convened by the directors of several larger food nets in France and Germany and demanded an explanation for the serious findings that in a secret meeting in Germany were agreed on the law strictly prohibited Cartel price for food products.
Representatives of German farmers and some European Parliament published the data in the European Parliament data that only four large chains of retail stores in Germany control 85 percent of the food market.
“A very large concentration is” as presented, and in the sector of processors of agricultural products.
The German Monopoly Commission warned that “great market concentration seriously affects both food producers and consumers.
And the Serbian government announced that a few chains of food stores have been prepared for serious suspicions that they agreed on raising food prices and maintaining unjustifiably high margins.
But then there is no news whether the competent ministry and inspections have taken something, although the citizens themselves were boycotted by great chains of supermarket.
Representatives of EU agricultural associations and the European Parliament deputies have put that “if Europe wants to feed itself, must be economically and environmentally sustainable, but by establishing honest market conditions and firm sustainable standards.”
They indicate that one of the steps should be and what the German government has been taken, and the contracts of food is made, directly between farmers, processors and sales chains, “to know exactly what market and consumers are justified margins.”
(Vijesti.ba)
