On Wednesday 7 October, the French Minister for Overseas Territories, Sébastien Lecornu, the Minister for Agriculture, Julien Denormandie, and the State Secretary for European Affairs, Clément Beaune, announced that they had written to Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski to demand that the budget for the Programme of Options Specifically Relating to Remoteness and Insularity (POSEI) be maintained for the 2021-2027 period. The Spanish and Portuguese authorities are taking the same approach.