The Minister of Agriculture, Didier Guillaume, was a little excited. Friday morning, he boasted on LCI to have "won the battle" of the European budget with the maintenance of the resources of the common agricultural policy (CAP), defended by Emmanuel Macron against the offensive of so-called "frugal" countries - Pays- Lower Austria, Sweden and Denmark. Panicked, French diplomats in Brussels hastened to specify that nothing was done.
Expected firmly at the Porte de Versailles this Saturday, the president had risen to the front as soon as he arrived at the European Council on Thursday, in favor of " a common agricultural policy that meets our ambitions ". " The account is not there, " he said, given the proposal on the table. After the British exit from the EU, the Commission and the European Council intend to cut the budget of the 27, whose CAP weighs almost 40%.
Over the 2021-2027 period, it would thus be endowed with 329 billion euros, against 383 billion during the previous seven years,
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