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Kann Europa den ökologischen Landbau wettbewerbsfähig machen?

Letztes Jahr protestierten die Landwirte gegen die mit der EU-Finanzierung verbundene Bürokratie, und ihre Demonstrationen zeigten Wirkung. Die Europäische Kommission hat die Umweltauflagen für Landwirte vereinfacht, aber wie wird sie die Gemeinsame Agrarpolitik im nächsten EU-Haushalt reformieren?

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00:00Farmers' protests a year ago against bureaucracy attached to EU funding have yielded results.
00:20The European Commission has been simplifying farmers' environmental obligations,
00:25which in turn led to criticism by supporters of the European Green Deal.
00:30Meanwhile, farmers are preparing a new battlefront to avoid cuts in the common agriculture policy
00:36in the next EU budget.
00:38The reform of European agriculture is at the heart of this EU decoded.
00:43The legislative simplification aims to save farmers 1.58 billion euros and member states
00:50210 million euros per year.
00:52To achieve that, the European Commission proposes easier payments for small farmers, including
00:57a raise of the annual lump sum to 2.500 euros, more flexible environmental controls, including
01:04for conservation of peatlands, wetlands and watercourses, easier mechanism to be reimbursed
01:10in case of natural disaster or animal disease, a single digital system to reduce paperwork.
01:17Farmers are pleased, but environmentalists say that measures will backfire.
01:22The latter argue that less environmental protection could lead to more climate change that could
01:27harm agriculture.
01:29Here's what some Europeans think about this challenge.
01:32I think the normative, if it's the question, has to be much more strict.
01:37To encourage them to help, but on the other hand, to control the way they have to act illegal.
01:45But they have to have certain norms that allow the environment and the health of everyone.
01:54I think there's a lot of bureaucracy in Europe, so that's why farmers have so many norms.
02:00If the farmers lose their ability to have income, they're going to stop producing, and then
02:05what's going to happen to us, the consumers?
02:07The responsibilities being put on them rather than the actual culprits, which are massive corporations.
02:13We can't renounce to agriculture in Europe.
02:16We don't have to be dependent on importations.
02:21With me is Gerardo Fortuna, one of Euronews' agriculture policy experts.
02:26What is the expected outcome of simplifying the EU agriculture rulebook?
02:31The goal is to make farmers' lives easier, basically, insist on their livelihoods and their
02:37well-being.
02:39And it's, of course, clearly in response to the major farmers' protests that we've seen
02:44last year in Brussels and across the rest of the EU countries.
02:47So, how does agriculture has to evolve in the European Union in order to meet its goals
02:54for climate and environmental protection within the Green Deal?
02:58I'm a bit pessimistic about it because the agriculture and food part of the Green Deal, the farm-to-fork
03:05strategy, has been put aside in this mandate.
03:08It has been replaced by this EU agriculture and food vision that is not meeting the same
03:15environmental concerns, let's say.
03:17There will be an attempt from EU lawmakers to try to meet the environmental targets through
03:24innovation and technology rather than just stricter regulation.
03:28The next battle for farmers will be the coming agriculture policy revision within the new EU budget
03:36for 2028-2034.
03:38So, what are the farmers' demands regarding this fund?
03:41This time is a bit different because they might lose the rural development.
03:45So, it's the second pillar of the commercial policy, which includes environmental investments,
03:51but also supports rural communities.
03:54And at the same time, they want these payments to be indexed to inflation.
04:00And they also want a stronger protection when it comes to trade deals.
04:04Thank you, Gerardo.
04:05Let's see now some more data on this agriculture reform.
04:09In the EU budget for 2021-2027, the cap received 386.6 billion euros, about one-third of the total budget.
04:19For the 2028-2034 budget, the Commission advocates merging the cap with the Cohesion Fund,
04:26the latter used for regional development.
04:28The new financial instrument, called National and Regional Investment Partnerships,
04:33may be presented in July.
04:35The European Parliament opposes this idea and, in a recent resolution,
04:40demanded that the fund remain autonomous and receive even more funds in the next budget.
04:46Let's hear the positions of two entities with opposing views on this subject,
04:50the Environmental Organisation Client Earth and the Farmers' Association Copacosheca.
05:00So, in these proposals, clearly the environmental objectives are there.
05:06The Commission intervenes on some elements in which the first two years of implementation of the CAP,
05:12which proved to be unworkable for our farmers.
05:16What we absolutely need to understand is that farming relies on nature.
05:22So, when the EU, since actually several years, is postponing or stripping off environmental rules,
05:33it also jeopardizes the future of farming, of farmers' jobs, of farmers' health,
05:40because they are impacted by some practices as well.
05:44If you think that the average farm size is 17 hectares,
05:54so you have the small, the medium, bigger.
05:57But the key element is the diversity.
05:59So, we are able to maintain this diversity,
06:02which allows to contribute to food security in Europe,
06:05but also reduce food insecurity outside Europe.
06:11From my point of view, the competitivity of the EU,
06:14or its food sovereignty, is not guaranteed in the long term,
06:17because we do not have a resilience in front of natural harm that is being caused,
06:25notably by farming practices, intensive practices,
06:29but that farmers are also victims of.
06:32It is not addressing the causes that put farmers in these situations,
06:37which is climate change and the degradation of the environment,
06:42the loss of pollinators, and so on and so forth.
06:49Europe needs to invest in agriculture,
06:51and with a strong budget increase to inflation.
06:55We call to maintain a common policy,
06:58able to ensure single market,
07:01invest to do the transition that society wants,
07:05and actually support a strategic sector as agriculture.
07:10I think that we need to invest in agriculture,
07:14so we need money for the agriculture sector,
07:17but we need this money to not constitute harmful subsidies.
07:22Currently, only 20% of the beneficiaries of the cap receive 80% of the subsidies.
07:30This is enormous.
07:32The long and sometimes violent wave of protests by farmers ahead of the 2024 European elections
07:38has changed the discourse on the Green Deal.
07:41The majority in the European Parliament is now calling for more support for agriculture
07:46and less ambitions for the ecological transition.
07:49The negotiations on the next new budget will test
07:52how deep the bloc's agricultural reform will be.
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