On Wednesday 3 September, the Socialists & Democrats (S&D) group in the European Parliament presented an ambitious position on the post-2027 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), sharply criticising the European Commission’s reform proposal as insufficient to meet current social, economic and environmental challenges (see EUROPE B13687A11).
The S&D group advocates a reinforced budget indexed to inflation in order to compensate for an erosion of €85 billion since 2020 and to respond to...