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Based on facts, either observed and verified directly by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources.
The EU's farming lobby groups will join Belgian national organisations in the streets of Brussels next Tuesday, to protest a plan to merge the Common Agricultural Policy into a megafund to be managed at national level.
Copa and Cogeca will mobilise on 20 May against the “dissolution of the CAP into a single fund (and) any move toward further renationalisation,” the organisations said in a statement on Tuesday. Copa head Massimiliano Giansanti told Euractiv last month that a protest was possible.
The associations have called for a “pan-European flash action” with “similar actions (...) carried out at the national level” in Belgium. They will support a protest next Tuesday organised by Walloon (FWA/UAW) and Flemish (BoerenBond) farmers organisations.
Tension in the EU farming sector has been simmering for weeks ahead of the first debate between Ursula von der Leyen and her commissioners on the post-2027 budget, to be held tomorrow. A senior Commission official said on Monday that the CAP reform will be presented on 16 July, either with the main EU budget proposal or shortly afterwards.
This is another idea farmers “cannot accept,” says the statement, “especially without clarity on resources, governance, or proper consultation with the agricultural sector”.
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