“With wars and rising costs, there are no cuts in agriculture. €427 billion is needed to defend farmers and food security,” said the rapporteur of the opinion of the European Parliament’s Agriculture Committee, Stefano Bonaccini, after the vote on Thursday 5 March on the funding for the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for the period 2028-2034.
The European Parliament’s Agriculture Committee has adopted its opinion on the agricultural aspect of the proposals for the EU’s next multiannual financial framework (MFF) (see EUROPE 13821/11), with 35 votes in favour, one against (the German member of the Greens/EFA group, Sebastian Everding) and 8 abstentions (from the PfE and Greens/EFA groups).
Mr Bonaccini welcomed a “broad cross-sectional majority saying ‘no’ to the European Commission’s proposed cuts to the CAP”. The Agriculture Committee is proposing €427 billion for the CAP over the period 2028-2034, “an amount needed to cancel the cuts and index resources to inflation”, he explained. To this amount must be added €6.3 billion for the Unity Safety Net and €9.1 billion for specific programmes for the outermost regions (POSEI). (Original version in French by Lionel Changeur)