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00:00Υπότιτλοι AUTHORWAVE

00:30Meanwhile, farmers are preparing a new battlefront to avoid cuts in the Common Agricultural Policy in the next EU budget.

00:38The reform of European agriculture is at the heart of this EU decoded.

00:42The legislative simplification aims to save farmers 1.58 billion euros and member states 210 million euros per year.

00:52To achieve that, the European Commission proposes easier payments for small farmers, including a raise of the annual lump sum to 2,500 euros,

01:01more flexible environmental controls, including for conservation of peatlands, wetlands and watercourses,

01:08easier mechanism to be reimbursed in case of natural disaster or animal disease, a single digital system to reduce paperwork.

01:16Farmers are pleased, but environmentalists say that measures will backfire.

01:22The latter argue that less environmental protection could lead to more climate change that could harm agriculture.

01:29Here's what some Europeans think about this challenge.

01:32Yo creo que la normativa, si es por ahí la pregunta, tiene que ser mucho más estricta y a ellos favorecerles ayudas,

01:40pero por otro lado controlarle la manera que tienen de actuar y legal.

01:45Pero sí que tienen que tener ciertas normas que permitan y conservar tanto el medio ambiente como un poco la salud de todos.

01:53Yo creo que hay demasiada burocracia en Europa, entonces por eso los agricultores tienen tantas normas.

02:00If the farmers lose their ability to have income, they're going to stop producing,

02:05and then what's going to happen to us, the consumers?

02:07The responsibility is being put on them, rather than the actual culprits, which are massive corporations.

02:13On peut pas renoncer à l'agriculture en Europe. Il faut pas être dépendant des importations.

02:19With me is Gerardo Fortuna, one of Euronews' agriculture policy experts.

02:26What is the expected outcome of simplifying EU agriculture rulebook?

02:31The goal is to make farmers' lives easier, basically, insist on their livelihoods and their well-being.

02:38And it's, of course, clearly in response to the major farmers' protests that we've seen last year in Brussels

02:45and across the rest of the EU countries.

02:47So how does agriculture has to evolve in the European Union in order to meet its goals

02:54for climate and environmental protection within the Green Deal?

02:58I'm a bit pessimistic about it because the agriculture and food part of the Green Deal,

03:03the farm-to-fork strategy, has been put aside in this mandate,

03:08has been replaced by this EU agriculture and food vision

03:12that is not meeting the same environmental concerns, let's say.

03:17There will be an attempt from EU lawmakers to try to meet the environmental targets

03:22through innovation and technology rather than just stricter regulation.

03:27The next battle for farmers will be the common agriculture policy revision within the new EU budget for 2028-2034.

03:38What are the farmers' demands regarding this fund?

03:41This time is a bit different because they might lose the rural development.

03:45So it's the second pillar of the commercial policy, which includes environmental investments,

03:51but also support rural communities.

03:54And at the same time, they want these payments to be indexed to inflation.

04:00And they also want a stronger protection when it comes to trade deals.

04:04Thank you, Gerardo.

04:05Let's see now some more data on this agriculture reform.

04:08In the EU budget for 2021-2027, the cap received 386.6 billion euros, about one-third of the total budget.

04:19For the 2028-2034 budget, the Commission advocates merging the cap with the cohesion fund,

04:26the latter used for regional development.

04:28The new financial instrument, called National and Regional Investment Partnerships,

04:33may be presented in July.

04:35The European Parliament opposes this idea and, in a recent resolution,

04:40demanded that the fund remain autonomous and receive even more funds in the next budget.

04:46Let's hear the positions of two entities with opposing views on this subject,

04:50the environmental organization Client Earth and the farmers' association Copa-Cosheca.

04:56So in these proposals, clearly the environmental objectives are there.

05:06The Commission intervenes on some elements in which the first two years of implementation of the CAP,

05:12which proved to be unworkable for our farmers.

05:16What we absolutely need to understand is that farming relies on nature.

05:23So when the EU, since actually several years, is postponing or stripping off environmental rules,

05:33it also jeopardizes the future of farming, of farmers' jobs, of farmers' health,

05:40because they are impacted by some practices as well.

05:47If you think that the average farm size is 17 hectares,

05:54so you have the small, the medium, bigger.

05:56But the key element is the diversity.

05:59So we are able to maintain this diversity,

06:02which allows to contribute to food security in Europe,

06:05but also reduce food insecurity outside Europe.

06:11From my point of view, the competitivity of the EU or its food sovereignty

06:15is not guaranteed in the long term,

06:17because we do not have a resilience in front of natural harm that is being caused,

06:25notably by farming practices, intensive practices,

06:29but that farmers are also a victim of.

06:32It is not addressing the causes that put farmers in these situations,

06:37which is climate change and the degradation of the environment,

06:42the loss of pollinators, and so on and so forth.

06:48Europe needs to invest in agriculture,

06:51and with a strong budget increase to inflation.

06:54We call to maintain a common policy,

06:58able to ensure a single market,

07:01invest to do the transition that society wants,

07:05and actually support a strategic sector as agriculture.

07:11I think that we need to invest in agriculture.

07:15So we need money for the agriculture sector,

07:18but we need this money to not constitute harmful subsidies.

07:21Currently, only 20% of the beneficiaries of the cap

07:27receive 80% of the subsidies.

07:30This is enormous.

07:32The long and sometimes violent wave of protests by farmers

07:35ahead of the 2024 European elections

07:38has changed the discourse on the Green Deal.

07:41The majority in the European Parliament

07:43is now calling for more support for agriculture

07:46and less ambitions for the ecological transition.

07:49The negotiations on the next EU budget

07:51will test how deep the bloc's agricultural reform will be.

07:55based out of political principles such as ру Are You

07:57Deino Brown,

07:57in Australia.

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