The Galician Peasant Union-Commissions (SLG-CCLL) has shown a "very critical" stance towards the partial agreement reached in the Council of Ministers of Agriculture of the European Union regarding the CAP proposal for the period after 2027, warning that it "renationalizes the aids".
In a public note, the SLG pointed out that it "does not know" the final text of the pact, as well as the specific stance of the Ministry and the Consellería regarding the debated document. "What we do know is that basic issues such as financial ones, the degressivity of the aids, the maximum aid limit, or the definition of active agriculture, that is, who can collect the CAP, were not negotiated," the union emphasized.
Likewise, the SLG has criticized that the proposal "renationalizes" the aids and "leaves in the hands" of the member states the power to support or not certain productive sectors.
For this reason, they demand a CAP oriented "to the peasants", with a minimum budget that ensures the continuity of their farms, recognizes the work of conserving the rural environment and ecosystem services, and takes into account the peculiarities of each territory.
In addition, the SLG has considered the complementary aid line announced by the president of the Xunta, Alfonso Rueda, aimed at alleviating the impact of the conflict in the Middle East on agricultural and livestock farms, to be "totally insufficient".