27/10/2025 (Agence Europe) – On Monday 27 October, Europe’s agriculture ministers generally welcomed the European Commission’s strategy for generational renewal (see EUROPE 13735/6). However, many also called for an adequate budget for the Common Agricultural Policy (see other news). Slovakia, Latvia and the Czech Republic felt that the target of 6% of the national envelope for young farmers (compared to 3% today) was too ambitious. Italy welcomed the objective of doubling the number of young farmers by 2040. Slovenia, the Netherlands and France have approved the proposed 6% target. However, France does not want this threshold to be set unilaterally by the Commission. For Slovakia, retirement measures should remain optional. Poland has stressed the need to maintain two separate pillars for the CAP. (LC)