Ringfenced, but reduced: EU Commission shrinks agriculture share in record budget

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Ringfenced, but reduced: EU Commission shrinks agriculture share in record budget  Europe’s agricultural spending will face cuts compared to the current programming period under the new EU long-term budget proposal, while the European Commission insists farmers will still receive the same amount “in their pockets”.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/07/17/ringfenced-but-reduced-eu-commission-shrinks-agriculture-share-in-record-budget  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00Europe is up for their left!

00:05Professionals are denouncing the fate reserved for the agricultural sector

00:09in the draft European budget presented by the European Commission.

00:13According to the budgetary framework for the period 2028-2034,

00:19the share of spending on agriculture will fall from 32% at present

00:23to 16.5% in the proposal presented by the European Executive.

00:27For the farmers who gathered outside the Commission building,

00:31these budget cuts are unacceptable.

00:57The proposed structure of the CAP, the Common Agricultural Policy,

01:03is also provoking anger.

01:05This historic European program will be diluted into a larger fund

01:09alongside, among others, cohesion policy.

01:12The cohesion fund and the agricultural fund are two completely different instruments.

01:17The beneficiaries are completely different.

01:19The cohesion fund is stated that regions and more project-based,

01:22well, farming and the Common Agricultural Policy was one of the few policies we had

01:29which was directed at individual farms and individuals with direct income support.

01:35So the structure of these policies were completely different.

01:37So merging them from a technical point of view was actually already quite a weird thing to do

01:43and not a simplification in our eyes.

01:46For the European farmers' lobby, this draft budget is what they call

01:50a complete renationalization of agricultural policy,

01:54masquerading as administrative simplification.

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