LUXEMBOURG (AFP) - the European Commission pledged Tuesday to put more money to help vegetable farmers reeling from an outbreak of bacteria, after the EU rejected a first offer of 150 million euros as insufficient.
Spain and the France said the figure presented by the executive body of the European Union is far from the losses suffered by producers including lettuce, tomatoes and cucumbers have been avoided by consumers frightened and prohibited by the Russia.
Commissioner of European agriculture Dacians agriculture the offer made at a meeting of e crisis. coli from farm to the Luxembourg Ministers and is out of the talks agreeing to write a cheque "essentially" bigger.
He indicated, it could come up with a new figure as early as Wednesday, but warned that it would be difficult to meet the demand for full compensation after he proposed to cover 30% of losses.
"I am ready to meet this level of 30 per cent, but I do not think that the budget will enable us to achieve 100% for all the goods and all producers," he said, stressing that the funds would come from EU's common budget.
Warning consumers lose confidence each day that the epidemic remains a mystery, agriculture has urged the German authorities to quickly find the real source of the epidemic that killed 24 people and whose epicenter is in Hamburg.
Spain, smoking after the German authorities wrongly accused his cucumbers of the outbreak, says the crisis is cost its producers of 225 million euros (330 million dollars) per week.
Spanish Agriculture Minister Rosa Aguilar said that several nations have signed a document calling for producers compensation of 90 to 100% of losses depending on the product.
"Spain is not the only one who will say no to 30 percent," she said.
"It would be very bad for nowhere, Spanish producers if we entered a war of numbers, which is going to get us" she said, adding that Madrid wants that all funds to be released immediately.
French equivalent Bruno Le Maire had seen the commission provides "just a starting point.".
French producers "are not responsible for what happens and take a direct strike, in the crisis" said. "They have a right of indemnity to the last euro."
The Group of European farmers, COPA-COGECA, says crisis is costing the sector 417 million euros per week.
The authorities have not yet identified the source of the epidemic, which has left more than 2,300 people sick in at least 14 countries. German consumers are advised to avoid lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes and raw sprouts.
"I hope that the authorities will be able to give an answer on the source of the infection as quickly as possible," said agriculture.
"Without this response, it will be difficult to regain the confidence of consumers, which is essential for the market to regain its strength," said the Commissioner.
Hopes that the source of contamination was finally localized suffered a setback Monday when the initial probes carried out on a farm to grow a variety of organic seeds in the North of the State of Lower Saxony has proved negative.
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