Agriculture minister: Govt working to protect EU funding for Hungarian farmers

The Hungarian government is doing all it can to preserve current levels of EU funding for Hungarian farmers, Minister of Agriculture Istvan Nagy said on Monday, after a meeting of central and eastern European counterparts. The ministers of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Romania signed a joint declaration at the meeting in Warsaw, calling for the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to be maintained at the current level in the bloc's budget for the 2021-2027 financial cycle, the ministry said in a statement. Nagy said the current proposal for CAP funding "would have to be raised even without the increased demands environmental and climate protection measures placed on farmers."