Agriculture and trade, Jean-Luc Mélenchon
Common Agricultural Policy: CAP recast towards sustainable production and farm employment
Direction of change: change of another kind, or uncertain direction, compared with current law.
The lever. Position on the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy: budget, distribution of aid, reform or exit. Direction rule: ↑ more aid.
« Refondre la PAC (politique agricole commune) et orienter les aides publiques agricoles pour favoriser la production écologiquement soutenable, l’intensité en main d’oeuvre des exploitations et le développement des protéines végétales »1Translation by the editorsRecast the CAP (Common Agricultural Policy) and direct public agricultural aid towards favouring environmentally sustainable production, labour-intensive farms and the development of plant proteins
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Current law, sources and limits of the cost schedule
Current law. The CAP national strategic plan 2023-2027 allocates French agriculture about €9.1bn a year (official document of 2022). Secondary sources give €9.4bn a year, of which €8.7bn for the PSN. The transfer from the first to the second pillar is 7.5%. The post-2027 EU financial framework is under negotiation.
Horizon. Not applicable.
Limits. The PAC (Common Agricultural Policy) is funded by the EU budget. A national position (capping, convergence, greening) redistributes the envelope with no net cost for the national budget. Only national co-financing of the second pillar or a substitute national aid would have a cost. If a candidate proposes to « renationaliser » [“renationalise”] the PAC, the cost would be about €9bn per year of national spending, less the reduction in the French contribution to the EU budget, which is not costed here.
- Ministère de l’Agriculture, « Le plan stratégique national PAC 2023-2027 », septembre 2022 (page 2), 2022-09: « « Le budget annuel de la PAC sur la période 2023-2027 pour l'agriculture française est consolidé avec le maintien de l'enveloppe de 9,1 milliards d'euros par an. » »
- Les cinq priorités du plan stratégique national de la PAC dévoilées (Banque des territoires): « « La France bénéficiera d'une enveloppe annuelle de 9,4 milliards d'euros par an pour la période 2023-2027, dont 8,7 milliards d'euros pour le PSN. » (lu via résultat de recherche) »
How to read these amounts. These are static costs and revenues, with no feedback effect, over a full year: nothing on growth, employment or the revenue that economic activity would gain or lose. A higher net cost does not on its own make a worse policy, nor net savings a better one: each programme rests on an economic model (demand-led stimulus, lower compulsory levies, consolidation of the public accounts…) that the cost schedule does not settle. GDP itself measures a volume of activity, not well-being or the usefulness of what is produced. Economic models and feedback effects.
- L’Avenir en commun, édition 2025 (La France insoumise), version 1 of 28 January 2025, p. 52. Open the document at this page.
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