Consumers would also be adversely affected by the withdrawal of EU agricultural subsidies

The interest groups object to the fact that the European Commission would finance Ukraine’s accession to the EU with the radical reduction announced in June. In their opinion, the planned restructuring of the EU financing cycle after 2027 and the cutting of area-based subsidies pose a serious threat to EU farmers, because it would make agriculture and the processing industry impossible, and products from third countries of dubious origin could end up on families’ tables, because Ukraine and other non-EU states would gain access to the market at the expense of EU producers and consumers.

They emphasized that agricultural support is not a gift, farmers must produce for it according to the world’s strictest plant protection, animal welfare and environmental protection conditions.

The European Commission is not promoting healthy European food production when it applies banded deductions to area-based payments. According to calculations, almost a quarter of the support would be deducted from a holding of 100-150 hectares.

This would destroy the family economic model, and the vast majority of producers in Hungary operate within family economic frameworks, with more than half of the farmland cultivated by farms between 50 and 500 hectares. Based on the proposal, subsidies would be completely withdrawn from farmers of retirement age, thus removing support from every third Hungarian producer

– they added.