“European agriculture will be stronger than before,” said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen during the press conference presenting the new seven-year EU budget 2028-2034. A statement that contrasts with the numbers presented, given that just under EUR 300 billion will be allocated to the CAP, whereas in the previous one (2021-2027) as much as EUR 87 billion more was allocated. A picture that has to be seen in the broader context of a 2000 billion budget, the highest ever allocated in European history…

protests by farmers’ unions (Coldiretti in the lead).