French Minister of Agriculture Didier Guillaume said Friday morning that France had obtained the maintenance of the budget for the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in the next multiannual budget of the European Union (EU), under discussion in Brussels.
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"The President of the Republic has already obtained 375 billion (euros), that is to say that today I can tell you that we have a PAC budget which is at the level of what we have spent in the previous term, "Didier Guillaume said on LCI on Friday. He said that this amount represented the equivalent, in proportion to the budget of an EU of 27 (excluding the United Kingdom) for the period 2021-2027, of the European agricultural budget in the 2014-2020 cycle, before Brexit .
The leaders of the Twenty-Seven have been meeting since Thursday in Brussels for an extraordinary European Council aimed at defining the next multi-annual budget of the bloc, cut by 75 billion euros compared to the previous one due to the departure of the United Kingdom at the end of January.
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While several of the net contributors have expressed their desire to see the EU budget reduced accordingly and pleaded for an adaptation of spending to new priorities such as the fight against climate change, France, the leading European agricultural producer , excludes any cut in the PAC budget.
