Question for written answer  E-002592/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Anna Maria Cisint (PfE), Susanna Ceccardi (PfE), Aldo Patriciello (PfE), Silvia Sardone (PfE), Isabella Tovaglieri (PfE)

Commission communication COM(2025) 46 final, entitled ‘The road to the next multiannual financial framework’, reveals the Commission’s intention to merge the common agricultural policy (CAP) into a single fund together with the cohesion policies. Such a serious move would irreversibly undermine the CAP’s historical, strategic and social function.

The CAP is not like the other sectoral funds: it ensures food sovereignty, territorial cohesion and agricultural sustainability. Diluting it into an indistinct financial logic means denying the role of agriculture as the backbone of the European project. The reactions of the farming community and the Member States are clear: this idea is unacceptable.

In view of the above:

Submitted: 26.6.2025

Last updated: 4 July 2025