Professor Alan Matthews reports on Linkedin: "The European Parliament has now voted in plenary (7 May) on its MFF resolution. The AGRI Committee through its Chair re-introduced amendments not previously accepted by the Budget Committee but which were accepted by plenary 381 votes to 245 for paragraph 29 and by 358 votes to 268 for paragraph 30.
Para 29 now "calls for an increased and dedicated budget for the CAP in the next MFF, safeguarding it from possible cuts" as well as calling for "additional dedicated funding sources to be explored where appropriate, including outside of the CAP, in order to cope with natural disasters and provide incentives to farmers and foresters to contribute to climate change mitigation, biodiversity recovery and nature protection, without measures causing a regression in EU agricultural production".Para. 30 notes that "the CAP urgently needs an increased budget in the next MFF that is indexed to inflation through annual re-evaluation" and underlines that direct payments "should continue to strengthen income security, production and protection against price volatility, better targeting persons actively engaged in agricultural production and the provision of public goods, while respecting realistic and balanced EU environmental and social standards"
This looks like a win for the farm lobby to me.
