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Agriculture: the CAP will be disrupted by Ukraine’s accession to the EU, according to a report

by AI | 27.Jun 2024 | Europe in brief AI

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the 27 will have to undergo a profound reform in the event of Ukraine, a great agricultural power, joining the European Union, according to a study.

A combine harvester gathers wheat near Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region on August 4, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo: Anatolii Stepanov / AFP)

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Paris – A possible membership of Ukraine in the European Union will be the “probable trigger for a profound reform” of the common agricultural policy (CAP), estimates the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (Iddri), in a study published Thursday.

The discussions on the agricultural component in the accession process, officially started Tuesday for Kiev, “are known to be among the most difficult”. The CAP represents about a third of the European budget and farms are particularly vulnerable “to intra-community competition,” the document recalls. 

Ukraine is an agricultural power due to “the size of its territory”, “the richness of its lands” and “the competitiveness of some of its sectors on the international market”.

After the invasion of the country by Russia in 2022, the EU suspended customs duties and tariff quotas on Ukrainian agricultural products, some of which arrived en masse. (27.06.2024)

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