European Budget 2028–2034: A Call from the European Parliament for Responsibility and Coherence

The European Parliament today adopted its position on the proposals for the European budget for the 2028–2034 period.

Starting from the observation that food security is a vital component of the European Union’s strategic autonomy, that the agricultural sector is particularly vulnerable to economic shocks, and that the transition of the European economy towards a carbon-neutral economy cannot be achieved without more agriculture, the European Parliament demonstrates political responsibility by opposing the treatment of agriculture as envisaged by the European Commission in its proposal presented in July 2025.

It calls for genuine political coherence between the imperative of European sovereignty—whether in food, energy or bioeconomy terms—which requires a stronger European agriculture—and the challenges of increasing productivity, rising production costs, improving the living standards of European farmers, ensuring quality and affordable food for all Europeans, maintaining the vitality of rural areas, enabling generational renewal, and managing crises whether climatic, economic or geopolitical.

In this context, Farm Europe welcomes the European Parliament’s call for a strong, autonomous CAP with a budget maintained in real economic terms, amounting to €433 billion dedicated to European agriculture for the 2028–2034 period. Only a properly funded European agricultural policy, truly common in nature and prioritising the sustainable increase of European agricultural production, will enable Europe to remain a leading global power, sovereign and in control of its future.

Farm Europe congratulates the rapporteurs of the European Parliament, notably MEP Siegfried Mureșan, as well as the committee rapporteurs, in particular MEP Stefano Bonaccini for the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (COMAGRI), for their serious and responsible work in the interest of Europe and Europeans.