European farm organisations have attacked the European Commission’s new agricultural reform proposals saying that “everybody in Europe would be worse off” and “only EU’s major trading partners will benefit.”
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COPA, the committee of agricultural organisations in the EU, and COGECA, which represents European agricultural cooperative organisations, claimed that the Commission was contradicting itself by defending production subsidies in a recent communication to World Trade Organisation but now proposing to “decouple” payments from production. Also it was going back on pledges to the entry candidate countries by seeking a system different from that they had agreed to join.
COPA-COGECA called on the European parliament and EU ministers to reject the scheme.
