Dismantling agriculture policy will undermine food security, warn EU farmers 

A two-day meeting in Brussels of over 100 EU farming and co-op leaders claimed that merging agricultural funding into a single fund would effectively eliminate the policy's two financial pillars

Undermining the architecture of the EU’s first common agriculture policy will inevitably weaken Europe's security, the letter to EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said. File Picture: Justin Tallis/ WPA/Getty

There is no security without food security and no strategic autonomy without food autonomy.

That’s what the leaders of Copa-Cogeca, the umbrella body for European farmers and co-ops, told EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen in an open letter.