The agriculture ministers of France and Germany have rejected the European Commission\u2019s proposal to decrease the budget for the post-2020 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), insisting that it should remain at the current level.<\/p>\n
French minister St\u00e9phane Travert and his German counterpart Julia Kl\u00f6ckner signed a joint declaration for the future CAP, which was presented at the EU AGRI Council in Luxembourg on Monday (16 July), claiming that the CAP budget should remain at the current levels.<\/p>\n
\u201cI welcome the fact that Germany has joined us in the opposition to the Commission\u2019s proposed budget on the CAP. A common Franco-German language is essential to guarantee the European added value of this major policy of the EU,\u201d Travert said.<\/p>\n
Following the Brexit and the emergence of new priorities such as security and immigration, the Commission proposed a 5% cut in CAP funding in the EU\u2019s 2021-2027 budget proposals.<\/p>\n
France, the biggest beneficiary of the CAP funds, and other member states such as Spain and Greece, expressed their dissatisfaction with the Commission\u2019s proposal through the \u201cMadrid Declaration\u201d.<\/p>\n
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A \u2018tricky\u2019 power re-balancing<\/p>\n
In the meantime, Farm Europe, a think-tank specialised in agricultural issues, conducted a survey which found that the new governance model is \u201ctricky\u201d as it means that in practice more powers are granted to the European Commission.<\/p>\n
According to the executive\u2019s proposals, announced last June, a new \u201cdelivery model\u201d is adopted, under which member states are given more space to come up with their own national strategies, which in theory, have to comply with the general goals set by the EU.<\/p>\n
But for Farm Europe, this is not the case.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith the paradigm shift proposed, the power to build the CAP and the vision for the future of EU agriculture would move from the co-legislators to the exclusive power of the European Commission to approve, or not, each national or regional strategy based on a first pillar offering 98% financial flexibility and 65% in rural development (30% earmarked for environmental measures and 5% for LEADER),\u201d Farm Europe said.<\/p>\n
This approach undermines the political aspect of the policy and gives simultaneously a \u201cblank cheque\u201d to the executive to oversee the policy, the think tank added.<\/p>\n
The Commission said the new proposals should modernise and simplify the CAP. But several member states criticised the executive, saying that the proposed measures will make the situation even more complicated.<\/p>\n
\u201cTheir requirements are particularly high and appear to lead to an increase in bureaucracy and administrative burden for the member states and beneficiaries,\u201d commented yesterday Greek minister of agriculture Evangelos Apostolou.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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