The negative consequences and difficulties of the farmer From the CAP applied 2023-2027, based on the frustrating announcements made by its President Commission Ursula von der Layen, for the budget of the period 2028-2035.
The adverse developments for the first time are both qualitative and quantitative. Practically farmers and the CAP are the big losers of the Commission’s announcement and are required to pay the marble for the restructuring of policies, without increasing the corresponding budget costs.
Negative sentences are summarized:
A. Quality: The CAP ceases to be an autonomous EU policy after more than 60 years and merges with other policies. Thus the proposed unification of the CAP funds and cohesion policy, they constitute the abandonment of the strategic objective, both for the nutritional competence and interests of Europe’s farmers, as well as for the geographical and social convergence of European states and regions. Food consumers will be the big loser of this change, along with farmers as food prices along with the cost of producing farmers can increase to 30%.
The EU appears in a time of climate crisis and uncertainty about food adequacy worldwide to abandon its strategic advantage. Thus, the CAP by emblematic policy is lost and merged into a single European Fund for Economic, Territorial, Social, Rural and Maritime Sustainable Welfare and Security, which in its long -term title seeks to hide the conversion of cohesion into fragmented and ineffective policies. The degeneration of the CFP that took place with national strategic plans 2023-2027 seems to be deeper with the promotion of Individual national plans that are a backlash in re -nationalization.
B. Quantitatively: The funding costs of the new fund for farmers and farmers It is proposed to reduce 20%in the period 2028-2035. While the climate crisis affects the most proportional to farmers and requires greater investment and aid to build their resilience, their EU proposal pulls the carpet under their feet, reducing the CAP budget. Thus, while in the last long -term EU budget, Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) amounted to EUR 386.6 billion, for the new period 2028 – 2035, it is proposed 300 billion euros to head for agriculture, that is, about € 86 billion, which is cut. a reduction of at least 20%. If it is added to the increase in bureaucracy and the significant slide by farmers, to intermediate and third party providers, as is the case today, the actual amount of aid available for farmers at a time of increased cost of production will decrease further.
The proposal by European Commission President Ursula von der Laien, as presented with these adverse quality and quantitative characteristics, cannot be accepted by farmers and organizations, Because it implies serious risks to the viability of farm farms and the balanced rural development. Farmers cannot pay or contribute to the Referee to reform the budget and the funding of other policies without increasing the budget available.
For this reason, ETHEAS, our cooperatives and farmers, will coordinate their action with the cooperatives and farmers of the other MMs, to prevent this adverse proposal that will extrud the farmers to abandon agricultural production and their farms by driving the countryside.