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Thursday, 28 June 2018

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

EU Budget Contribution

Photo of Charlie McConalogueCharlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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252. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of EU member states that are prepared to increase national contributions to the EU budget and MFF 2021-2027 in order to increase spending for CAP; the estimated number of member states against increasing national contributions to the EU budget proposed by the European Commission in May 2018; and the increased national percentage in GNI terms needed for each member state to increase contributions to stop proposed cuts to CAP post-2020. [28632/18]

Photo of Michael CreedMichael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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Recently in Madrid I agreed a Memorandum, with five of my European colleagues, seeking that CAP funding for 2021 - 27 would not be subject to cuts and would remain at the current level for the 27 EU member states.  Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, Greece and Finland all signed the Memorandum.  Support has grown for this position and I understand that up to  twenty Member States have expressed support for this position.

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