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Brussels insists on the need for an "ambitious" agricultural budget to help growth
14/01/2011
January 14, 2010
The Agriculture Commissioner, Dacian Ciolos, has reiterated its call to EU countries ensure an "ambitious" budget to the agricultural common policy (Cap) beyond 2013, with the aim of meeting the challenges posed by climate change and food security, but also to contribute to the 'green' growth in the European economy.
"We have put forward a very ambitious proposal for the future of the CAP and the budget should be at the level of that ambition," he has asked the Commissioner in a special European Commission, created to assess the budgetary requirements of the EU for the next financial year. The European Parliament expected to vote a report thereon to the plenary of June, before the European Commission presented its proposal for the new budget.
Ciolos warned MEPs that it most likely is that a reduction in funding for the CAP would lead to an increase in the national agricultural expenditure and therefore not achieved any savings for the Member States.
