Negotiations have begun to define what the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union should look like, a vital policy for the agricultural and livestock sector in the country. The Agriculture ministers of the Twenty-seven debated this Monday the first lines of work outlined by the European Commission for the new CAP. The reform, however, proposes fewer resources and more leeway for states to decide how to distribute them. In Catalonia, the sector views the proposal with concern because it fears that this flexibility will end up cutting aid and creating inequalities between territories.

Catalan agriculture does not seem to find a moment of peace with Brussels. After the 2024 demonstrations and the battle that last year's approval of the trade agreement with Mercosur represented, the country's agricultural sector has clashed with the European Commission's proposals for the multiannual financial framework — the Union's budget — for the 2028-2034 period. The project by Ursula Von der Leyen's executive includes profound changes in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Changes that have displeased neither the regional entities nor the Government, who have staged their unity this Tuesday against a large part of the aspects of the Twenty-Seven's project. "We do not agree with the cuts, nor with the elimination of the two pillars, nor with a recentralization of competences," enumerated the Minister of Agriculture of the Generalitat, Òscar Ordeig, at an event organized at the department's headquarters.