Big two want CAP budget status quo

The agriculture ministers of Germany and France said they want to keep the EU farming budget at its current level, after they met in Berlin last Wednesday.

Germany’s Ilse Aigner and France’s Stéphane Le Foll said they “support the Commission’s proposal to maintain the agricultural budget to the nominal level of 2013 for the period 2014-2020.”

Germany is the largest contributor to the EU budget, and France is the largest beneficiary from the farming budget, which makes up about 40% of the EU’s total budget.