The government is deeply concerned about cuts to agricultural aid.
This reduction that the European Commission intends to implement could translate into a loss of approximately 15 million euros per year in the Balearic Islands.
The Government formally conveyed to the European Commission its "deep concern" regarding the European Commission's proposal to cut the budget allocated to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) between 2028 and 2034. According to the Commission's proposal, the CAP would be reduced from the current €386 billion. The Regional Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and the Environment, Joan Simonet, explains that this reduction "could translate into a loss of around €15 million per year in the Balearic Islands."
The Regional Minister has sent two letters addressed to the European Commissioners for Agriculture and Fisheries, Christophe Hansen and Costas Kadis, respectively, in which he denounces the negative effects that these decisions could have on the primary sector of the islands.
Simonet has conveyed to Europe that "this budget reduction not only represents a significant economic setback, but also distorts the essence of the CAP as a common, strategic, and cohesive policy for the European Union." Furthermore, he added that turning this line of aid into a simple example of income support conditioned on compliance with environmental practices - however important they may be - compromises its fundamental role in the economic, social and territorial sustainability of rural Europe."
In the document sent to the European Commissioner for Agriculture, the minister points out that, in the case of the Balearic Islands, they are "essential to guarantee the viability of agricultural and fishing farms." Therefore, he insists that "the future of thousands of farming and fishing families in the Balearic Islands is at stake."
disregards the strategic importance of fishing, one of the few truly common policies of the European Union, and the disappearance of the term in the title of the new fund is a discouraging sign for the fishing sector."
Call for institutional unity
Simonet reiterated the government's commitment to the primary sector and called for unity among the autonomous communities and the country to defend, in Brussels, a "fair, well-endowed, and sensitive" Economic and Social Council (ECP) for territorial diversity.
He also formally addressed the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food, Luis Planas, to ask him to consider convening a meeting to conduct an "in-depth and coordinated" analysis among all the autonomous communities.
