UPA describes as “impossible” the pretensions of the European Commission with the budget of the CAP

“What the European Commission intends with the CAP is impossible”. This has been expressed by the Union of Small Farmers and Ranchers to know the proposed EU budget for the years 2021 to 2027. “They want farmers and ranchers to do miracles,” they said. “Tell us how we are going to produce more food, more varied and sustainable, at reasonable prices, each time with less aid,” he asked.

Spanish farmers and ranchers do not get the accounts. The European Commission intends to undertake a cut of more than 40,000 million for the next six years in the Common Agricultural Policy. At the same time, the objectives of this policy are smaller than ever, with the strictest rules and with less protections for farmers and farmers. Something that is, for the agrarian organization UPA, “simply impossible”.

For the general secretary of the UPA, Lorenzo Ramos, the European Union “wants historical sinuses like the Brexit, or that we assume the budget increases to stop the people who remain” in Europe. “However, this is” a trap “, he says, since the CAP” is not a policy for farmers, but for the entire society. ”

“The PAC allows us to enjoy the healthiest, most varied, safest and highest quality food in the world, and so that it can continue to meet its objectives, it must have a strong budget and clear objectives,” said Lorenzo Ramos.

“Spanish farmers and ranchers do not accept the cut that the Commission has proposed,” said Ramos, who also has installed the European Parliament and the Council of the EU in opposition to this proposal. “They have confronted us,” he has sentenced.

Less PAC means less Europe

The Common Agricultural Policy is, since its creation, one of the pillars of European construction. However, it has been losing weight reform after reform. With this last proposal that has just been known, the CAP would account for only 30% of the European budget, when in its origins it meant more than 50%.

The proposal also intends to cut intensely the so-called cohesion funds and those destined to rural development, which are what should serve to stop one of the main demographic challenges facing Europe: the depopulation of rural areas.

“We all want a more sustainable Europe, more respectful of the environment, with a strong and diversified economy. Carrying the PAC does not seem the best way to achieve these objectives “, have pointed out from UPA, an organization that believes that this cut would hurt especially small and medium farmers and ranchers, making them more vulnerable to large corporations.

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