Source: European Parliament
17.10.2024
Question for written answer E-002147/2024
to the Commission
Rule 144
Jadwiga Wiśniewska (ECR)
A Commission staff working document on the EU financial framework for 2028-2034 sets out plans to introduce strict conditions that Member States must meet to access funds from the EU budget.
The document suggests that a method will be introduced to make the receipt of funds for social housing and farm subsidies conditional on a country’s adoption of rules on organic farming and gender equality policies.
The Commission’s tying of the receipt of EU funds to matters of philosophy and ideology is a step towards centralising power in the EU and an encroachment on national sovereignty.
Making countries subject to conditions of this nature is tantamount to blackmail.
In light of the above:
- 1.Is the Commission aware that imposing further bureaucratic criteria on access to EU farm subsidies will deepen the economic crisis in the sector?
- 2.What grounds justify linking the disbursement of agricultural funds to the promotion of gender equality?
- 3.Is the Commission planning on making EU budgetary disbursements in 2028-2034 contingent on any other ideological or philosophical criteria?
Submitted: 17.10.2024