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Unprecedented farmer mobilisation may have already prevented the Commission from eliminating the independent CAP (Common Agricultural Policy) funds altogether, but organisations now believe further action is needed to resist cuts to its overall budget.
As such, farmers will return to the streets of Brussels next week when the first package of proposals for the EU’s next long-term budget is presented, on July 16th. The planned protest has been described as having the potential to be “the most significant mobilisation since last year.”
Brussels is reportedly planning to cut the CAP’s overall budget by between 15-25% starting in 2028, despite the significant struggles already faced by farmers across the continent.
One of the organisers behind next Wednesday’s protest said industry representatives were calling for “a renewed commitment,” including an inflation-adjusted CAP budget.
The farmers can already rely on some support from within the European Parliament. Italian MEP Carlo Fidanza, who is the European Conservatives and Reformists group’s coordinator on the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, said on Thursday that as “the guardians of our food, land and heritage,” farmers
deserve our respect and support to keep Europe food secure.
Fourteen EU member states have also already teamed up against the Commission to oppose its budget reform plans.
And COPA-COGECA, an umbrella organization which represents millions upon millions of European farmers, has persistently complained about the lack of “clarity or reassurance from the Commission on the future EU budget and CAP.”
🚨 SECOND MOBILISATION OF 🇪🇺 FARMING COMMUNITIES IN BRUSSELS
— COPA-COGECA (@COPACOGECA) July 10, 2025
📛Without clarity or reassurance from the @EU_Commission on the future EU budget and #CAP
📛With the persistent echo of silent budget cuts to agricultural policy.
📛 With actions that stand in sharp contrast to… pic.twitter.com/d9UVLEBxVK
This upcoming action follows many such protests, including towards the end of May, when Belgian and European farmers’ organizations demonstrated in front of the European Commission’s Brussels headquarters, focusing again on planned CAP reforms.
But Brussels is so far—as with many such important issues—proving unwilling to listen.
