{"id":469409,"date":"2026-10-27T16:40:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T15:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/10\/27\/laccordo-del-consiglio-sulla-pac-divide-gli-eurodeputati-vittoria-italiana-per-fdi-proposta-debole-per-i-verdi\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T17:06:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T16:06:30","slug":"the-councils-agreement-on-the-cap-divides-meps-an-italian-victory-for-fdi-a-weak-proposal-for-the-greens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/10\/27\/the-councils-agreement-on-the-cap-divides-meps-an-italian-victory-for-fdi-a-weak-proposal-for-the-greens\/","title":{"rendered":"The Council\u2019s agreement on the CAP divides MEPs: an \u201cItalian victory\u201d for FDI, a \u201cweak proposal\u201d for the Greens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels \u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/meetings\/agrifish\/2026\/10\/26\/?utm_source=brevo&amp;utm_campaign=AUTOMATED%20-%20Alert%20-%20Newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_id=3318\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>The agreement reached last night<\/b><\/a> (26 October) by the Agriculture Council on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has divided the Italian delegation to the European Parliament. While <strong> Fratelli d\u2019Italia hails the outcome as a victory for the government and farmers, the Greens have criticised the compromise<\/strong>, accusing it of undermining Europe\u2019s environmental ambitions and pushing for greater renationalisation of funds.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Fratelli d\u2019Italia delegation has issued positive assessments. \u201c<strong>It is an Italian political victory,<\/strong>\u201d emphasises Carlo Fidanza, head of the delegation to the European Parliament and coordinator of the ECR Group on the Committee on Agriculture, who argues that the Commission\u2019s initial proposal would have drastically reduced the CAP\u2019s resources and autonomy. The credit, the MEP argues, goes to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/10\/26\/italy-is-calling-for-guarantees-regarding-agricultural-work-and-risk-management-for-producers\/\"> Minister Francesco Lollobrigida<\/a>, who is said to have defended farmers\u2019 interests and European food sovereignty.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;More resources, greater autonomy, flexibility in income support, the safeguarding of coupled aid and strengthened measures against natural disasters have yielded tangible results,&#8221; says Fidanza. The MEP is now calling for measures to offset the rise in production costs, starting with agricultural diesel, including through the use of EAFRD resources still available and amendments to the CAP\u2019s National Strategic Plans. \u201c<strong>The CAP is not an ATM to be emptied<\/strong> to fund other European priorities, but a pillar of our food sovereignty,\u201d he concludes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The position of Cristina Guarda, a Green\/EFA MEP, is virtually the opposite. Guarda describes the agreement as \u201ca weak proposal that can be bent to suit any national interest.\u201d According to the MEP, the Council \u201c<strong>is doing the bare minimum and pushing the CAP towards ever-greater renationalisation,<\/strong>\u201d while the compromise would reduce common safeguards in social and environmental terms.<\/p>\n<p>The criticism centres primarily on <strong>the abolition of social conditionality<\/strong>, which, according to the MEP, would allow CAP funds to be received without complying with minimum European standards on working conditions, health and safety for agricultural workers. On the environmental front, Guarda condemns the removal of the obligation to fund organic farming and the livestock density limit for coupled support, as well as the optional nature of support for the ecological transition.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The MEP also criticises the lack of a binding minimum quota for generational renewal. \u201cIn Parliament, we will oppose this with all our might and push for a genuine common policy, with at least 35 per cent of spending allocated to the ecological transition and certainty for organic farming,\u201d she says, citing <strong>workers\u2019 rights as a \u201cclear red line.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels \u2013The agreement reached last night (26 October) by the Agriculture Council on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has divided the Italian delegation to the European Parliament. While Fratelli d\u2019Italia hails the outcome as a victory for the government and farmers, the Greens have criticised the compromise, accusing it of undermining Europe\u2019s environmental ambitions and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7896,"featured_media":274765,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"","format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25709,25774],"tags":[25855,29654,28143,28065,26743,33123,28289,31277,30549,36395],"class_list":["post-469409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agrifood-en","category-in-brief","tag-agriculture-en","tag-agrifood-en","tag-brothers-ditalia-en-2","tag-carlo-fidanza-en","tag-policy-agricultural-community-en","tag-consiglio-agricoltura","tag-cristina-guarda-en","tag-pac-en-2","tag-parlamento-europeo-en","tag-verdi-ale"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7896"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469410,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469409\/revisions\/469410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}