Bovine dermatitis, the alarm: "Europe confirms its ban on livestock farming."

"The European Union confirms the blockade of Samugheo and the maintenance of the 20-kilometer restriction zone."

This is what Coldiretti Sardegna has learned from sources that confirm Brussels' desire to keep the region under restrictions, despite the evolving health situation and the forceful demands that came from the farmers' mobilization last Friday in Olbia .

"This prospect is unacceptable and is holding the entire Sardinian cattle sector hostage," say Battista Cualbu, president and director of Coldiretti Sardegna, and Luca Saba . "Not only have the requests of the hundreds of farmers who arrived in Olbia from across the island last Friday gone unheard, but it once again confirms how Sardinia's needs remain unheard at European level."

"We are not backing down and are forcefully demanding the downgrading of the disease," they state, "a reduction in the surveillance zone, and also that the Region immediately deploy the 11 million euros available to compensate farmers for the lost movements and for the animals culled."

(Unioneonline/ AD)