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Every day, Europe’s farmers and agri-food actors provide citizens with safe, high-quality and nutritious food, alongside feed, fuel and fibre. In doing so, they strengthen Europe’s resilience, sustainability and stability in an increasingly uncertain geopolitical environment. The EU Competitiveness Agenda and Competitiveness Fund 2028–2034 must place agriculture and the agri-food chain at their core—because they are at the heart of the European project, a pillar of 🇪🇺 economy, security and way of life. 4⃣0⃣signing organisations consider the European Competitiveness Fund a major opportunity to mobilise investments in agriculture, food and the whole agri-food chain - including its processing and manufacturing activities - within the future #MFF enabling deployment of key strategic investments for infrastructure, services and skills focusing on strategic actions and reducing the investment gap of the sector. 📢Our call to the @Europarl_EN: Investing in the EU’s agriculture and food sectors across the whole agri food chain means investing in Europe’s security, resilience, growth, and its future. Europe needs to ensure that agriculture and food sectors receive the recognition they require to continue contributing to Europe’s competitiveness and the future of the European project.

🍴EU Agri-Food Promotion Budget at Risk! @COPACOGECA, alongside 15 undersigned organisations, has raised the alarm in a letter to Commissioner @CHansenEU regarding the proposed €112 million budget for 2027 EU agri-food promotion policy 🟰a 45% cut compared to 2026 ! This drastic reduction threatens the progress made in recent years and undermines the stability of promotion programmes. It contradicts the @EU_Commission own commitment to strengthen agricultural promotion and risks weakening the 🇪🇺support for the agri-food sector at a critical moment. Promotion policy is a key tool for EU operators to differentiate their products and secure trade agreements in unstable global markets. Cutting this support now sends the wrong signal, especially when the Commission itself has stressed the need to diversify exports and boost the sector’s competitiveness. 📄 Read the full letter here: copa-cogeca.eu/press-release… We urge the Commission to reconsider the proposed allocation for 2027 and to restore the budget to at least €205 million, that reflects the strategic importance of agricultural promotion for the competitiveness, resilience and long-term success of the EU agri-food sector.