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A Not So Common Agricultural Policy and A Mega MF(F)ing Fund – What's Cooking in the New CAP? | Agricultural and Rural Convention

We promised a budgetary bombshell, and that’s exactly what dropped in Brussels last week. With a (not so) ‘Common’ Agricultural Policy, the Commission has juddered into a new direction  — and if you’re wondering what in the MF(F)-ing hell just happened, you’re certainly not the only one. Here Natasha Foote unpacks some first takeaways and why it has so far gone down like a sack of manure.  We promised a budgetary bombshell, and that’s exactly wh…

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One of the main innovations of the CAP 2023-2027 is that all Member States must have a strategic plan for the CAP which identifies the interventions or measures which are intended to achieve the objectives of the CAP and the ambition of the European Green Pact.The design of the interventions is based on a thorough analysis of the needs of the agricultural sector and the rural environment as a whole, thus making the CAP more responsive to present…

PPdeG MEP Adrián Vázquez accuses BNG and the Greens of being "intellectual authors of the budget approach that they are now criticizing", for the European Commission's proposal to reduce funds for the common agricultural policy (CAP) and the fisheries policy.

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The announcement had the effect of a "bomb" for the agricultural world. On 16 July, the European Commission presented the new architecture of its financial framework for the period 2028-2034. The decline of the funds dedicated to the CAP (Common Agricultural Policy) and the new payment rules are worrying the professionals. On Tuesday, Socialist MEP Claire Fita visited the Gard. Member of the European Parliament, member of the Agriculture Committ…

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According to seasonally adjusted data available to Eurostat, 19 countries recorded budget deficits in the first three months of this year, and seven of them exceeded the ceiling of three percent of GDP.

Ecovalia, the organic production organisation in Spain, expresses its resounding rejection of the European Union's budget reform proposal, which provides for a 20% cut in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and its integration into a global budget fund.The measure implies, in the opinion of the entity, a dismantling of the CAP as we have known it and a historic setback in the conception of agriculture as a common strategic good.The organisation…

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