The national exchequer must make up any funding shortfall in the next Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), Midlands-Northwest MEP Maria Walsh has said.
Brussels has proposed that the next CAP will have 80% of the funding compared with the current programme.
“We’re using these 18 months looking and pushing to ensure enough funding is given and if it’s not given, the national exchequer needs to fund it, that for me is a very clear red line,” she said.
Inflation
She said that the next CAP must have matching funding and that it also must take account of inflation rates.
“I was very clear in our agriculture committee proposal that we put forward on CAP quite recently that we don’t just need to see the matched funding of 100% from the previous CAP, we need to see it also include inflation rates.
“Outside of the farming sector, what we’re seeing now with Russia’s further push into Ukraine impacts fertiliser, what we see in the US in terms of tariffs increases instability for our farmers to do what they need to do best,” she said.
Walsh said that it isn’t good enough that people don’t know where their milk comes from.
“It’s not good enough that farmers who provide all that goodness and the best product on an international scale are being made feel like they have to carry these burdens of geopolitics at play,” she said.
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The national exchequer must make up any funding shortfall in the next Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), Midlands-Northwest MEP Maria Walsh has said.
Brussels has proposed that the next CAP will have 80% of the funding compared with the current programme.
“We’re using these 18 months looking and pushing to ensure enough funding is given and if it’s not given, the national exchequer needs to fund it, that for me is a very clear red line,” she said.
Inflation
She said that the next CAP must have matching funding and that it also must take account of inflation rates.
“I was very clear in our agriculture committee proposal that we put forward on CAP quite recently that we don’t just need to see the matched funding of 100% from the previous CAP, we need to see it also include inflation rates.
“Outside of the farming sector, what we’re seeing now with Russia’s further push into Ukraine impacts fertiliser, what we see in the US in terms of tariffs increases instability for our farmers to do what they need to do best,” she said.
Walsh said that it isn’t good enough that people don’t know where their milk comes from.
“It’s not good enough that farmers who provide all that goodness and the best product on an international scale are being made feel like they have to carry these burdens of geopolitics at play,” she said.
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