In a position adopted, on Thursday 10 July, by the Renew Europe group in the European Parliament on the future Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), direct payments remain essential and should be primarily targeted at active farmers, especially those in fragile regions, “early-career farmers and those most in need”.
The group therefore supports the European Commission’s proposals to apply capping, degressivity of aid and “labour-based” thresholds, but believes that these tools must...