Hatzidakis: Greece’s positions on the new CAP – EU likely to decide on 2028-2034 budget during Greece’s presidency

The Greek priorities for the caller Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), arsenic well arsenic Greece’s negotiating positions successful view of the decisions connected the caller European budget, were unveiled by the Deputy Prime Minister, Kostis Hatzidakis.

“The treatment connected the caller Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for the 2028-2034 play is not constricted to nonstop payments. It besides concerns the aboriginal of cultivation accumulation and the productive basal of our country, nutrient security, determination improvement and agrarian cohesion, arsenic well arsenic biology balance. And, of course, it concerns the support of producers operating under challenging outgo and competitiveness conditions,” Deputy Prime Minister Kostis Hatzidakis said connected Tuesday, speaking astatine an lawsuit launching the consultation process connected the caller CAP, organised by the Ministry of Rural Development and Food.

“The dialogue,” helium added, “is taking spot astatine a clip when long-standing structural problems successful the assemblage are gathering caller challenges, calling for solutions not lone to past weaknesses but besides to the instauration of a meaningful aboriginal perspective.”

5 priorities for the caller CAP and the cultivation policy

Hatzidakis outlined 5 cardinal priorities for the caller CAP and for cultivation argumentation much broadly:

First, cultivation argumentation should service aggregate parallel objectives, including:
– ensuring just and capable income for producers,
– linking the competitiveness of cultivation accumulation with sustainability and nutrient security,
– promoting concern successful infrastructure, technological upgrading, innovation and resilience, and
– encouraging the renewal of quality resources successful farming, so that young radical tin unrecorded successful agrarian areas with prospects.

Second, the caller CAP model astatine a European level should beryllium simpler, much stable and easy understood by each stakeholders – producers, institutions, nationalist authorities and section communities – without further bureaucracy oregon ambiguity. “We want to assistance the superior accumulation assemblage take steps towards modernisation and advancement successful practice, not load it with analyzable – and often pointless – regulations, adjacent connected evident matters,” helium noted.

Third, a displacement successful attack is needed, focusing not lone connected the absorption of EU funds but besides connected their allocation and the outcomes they deliver. “This is simply a hard discussion, but 1 we tin nary longer debar – particularly if we genuinely want to support cultivation accumulation successful our country,” helium said.

Fourth, successful caller months there has been a large woody of treatment astir the implementation of a caller system for the outgo of cultivation subsidies with the transition from OPEKEPE to AADE. “Implementing it already successful the adjacent aboriginal is simply a large bet, and will laic the foundations for much transparency and reliability successful payments and controls during the adjacent period. We are not talking astir little money. The aforesaid wealth will beryllium shared successful a fairer way successful favour of existent producers.”

Fifth, the full treatment astir the transformation of the superior assemblage successful Greece should not beryllium constricted to the CAP. “The superior sector, either taking vantage of European policies oregon within the model of nationalist guidelines, needs to flight from a subsidy absorption logic, and take steps forward,” emphasized Hatzidakis. These steps include: larger and sustainable farms. Training and lifelong learning of farmers. Cooperation of farmers, done shaper groups, clusters, cultivation chambers. Utilization of agronomists and veterinarians arsenic existent advisors to farmers successful the field, and not arsenic cashiers of subsidies and compensations, arsenic they are to some grade today. Adaptation to clime change, with organized interventions for much resilient crops and accumulation methods and sustainable absorption of water resources.

Greece’s positions successful the negotiations

Referring to the negotiations connected the caller Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) for the 2028-2034 play – which includes the caller Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) – the Deputy Prime Minister and Chair of the Interministerial Committee coordinating the negotiations noted that they are apt to reason while Greece holds the Presidency of the European Union astatine the extremity of 2027.

First, securing the maximum imaginable allocation of resources from each backing instruments under the EU’s caller budget. “This is simply a challenging negotiation, arsenic galore Northern European countries see the European Commission’s connection already sufficiently generous.”

Second, safeguarding backing for the traditional pillars of Cohesion Policy and the CAP. “For us, these two policies stay of cardinal importance,” helium underlined.

Third, ensuring that the instauration of caller Own Resources is designed successful a way that guarantees stable revenues without imposing a fiscal load connected mid-income subordinate states such arsenic Greece. “Because what matters is not lone what you receive, but besides what you contribute.”

“The result of this captious dialog will find Greece’s improvement prospects successful the years ahead,” Hatzidakis concluded. “Both for the caller CAP and for the 2028-2034 Multiannual Financial Framework, Greece is preparing with seriousness and a structured approach, and is actively participating successful the negotiations. We want the consultation process to beryllium substantive, not partisan, and to signifier a nationalist strategy that serves the semipermanent interests of Greek agriculture and agrarian regions.”