Brussels Slashes the EU Farm Budget, Calls It a Win. Farmers Call It a Declaration of War.

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The EU Commission has presented a gigantic budget, but less money is to be spent in agriculture in the future. Europe's farmers still receive 300 billion euros by 2034, but lose their decades of special role.

Helsingin Sanomat

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Finnish MEPs are taking a cautious approach to the proposal. The Commission is proposing cuts of up to 20 percent in regional and agricultural subsidies.

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Brussels is preparing to give Ukraine another huge sum: according to the latest proposal, 100 billion euros, or more than 39 thousand billion forints, would be allocated to support Kiev from the EU budget between 2028 and 2034. While the money continues to flow into Ukraine, European farmers are being practically made impossible – their subsidies are being cut, they are being hit with new rules, and part of their resources are being redeployed t…

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While the common agricultural policy will continue to have a separate legal basis in the next EU budget in the long term, it should merge into the wider 865 billion fund, incorporating the current two pillars: direct payments and rural development. The EU Multiannual Financial Framework 2028-2034, as proposed by the EU Commission, provides for €300 billion for the CAP. The figures provided by the EU Commissioner for the Budget, Piotr Serafin, by…