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Feeding Europe's future together!

Copa and Cogeca are the united voice of farmers and agri-cooperatives in the EU. Together, we ensure that EU agriculture is sustainable, innovative and competitive, while guaranteeing food security for 500 million people throughout Europe. 

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41st edition of North American - EU Agricultural Conference

Agricultural leaders from both sides of the Atlantic gathered in Como, Italy, to address global challenges. International farmers cooperation is important. This conference is always the moment to remind and strengthen friendship between European, Mexican, American and Canadian colleagues. A joint press release of this conference can be found on our website in the news/press release section.

02/10/2025

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Key Highlights

Policy

Agriculture is one of the most integrated sectors at European level and lies at the heart of many European institution initiatives. Copa and Cogeca organise themselves so as to respond to the challenges and questions posed by European decision-makers, allowing European farmers and cooperatives to put forward their views and proposals concerning a multitude of subjects that directly affect farmers no matter what agricultural activity they are involved in. In the following 12 categories, you will find our positions on key issues affecting the future of European agriculture.

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Our Vision – We Farm 4 EU

The coming decade is pivotal for EU agriculture. Many challenges lie ahead. We will face difficult debates on generation renewal, low farm income, market volatility and climate change. As European farmers and cooperatives, we are aware of and ready to navigate these difficult issues and to weather the changes in store. We seek to deliver the type of agriculture that our citizens expect and demand: agriculture that provides a high level of food security and high standards of quality, welfare, sustainability and environmental protection. This is our commitment to Europe! In return, we look to Europe’s leaders to deliver the policy framework that will feed our future.  

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Copa and Cogeca’s initial reaction to the EU–Indonesia CEPA

Copa and Cogeca take note of today’s conclusion of the EU–Indonesia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement. The agreement holds important opportunities for certain EU agri-food sectors, but its real value will depend on the effective removal of non-tariff barriers and the delivery of faster, more predictable procedures for exporters.

23.09.2025 #STATEMENT

EU pigmeat sector faces serious blow from Chinese tariff decision

Copa and Cogeca strongly regret the decision of the Chinese authorities to impose preliminary anti-dumping tariffs on EU pork exports. EU pigmeat producers do not engage in anti-dumping practices and have fully cooperated with the investigation and all requests from the Chinese authorities.

05.09.2025 #STATEMENT

Commission’s proposal fall short – EU-Mercosur Deal still a threat to sustainability and fair competition

Our organisations take note of today’s Commission proposal on the ratification of the EU–Mercosur Partnership Agreement and its accompanying plan to operationalise the bilateral safeguard mechanism. While this initiative clarifies certain aspects of safeguard implementation, critical questions remain over how such a unilateral legal act would be voted on, enforced, and accepted by Mercosur countries as a binding commitment by the Commission.

03.09.2025 #STATEMENT

The push for EU-Mercosur deal ratification will further deepen the gap between farming communities and the European Commission

At the beginning of this week, leading European media reported on the prospect of an imminent presentation of the EU-Mercosur agreement by the European Commission, taking advantage of what it considers to be ‘favourable timing’ in Brussels. The prospect of putting forward for ratification by the European Parliament and Council an agreement that has not evolved in substance, and through a procedure that amounts to a political push-through, is deeply damaging and sends yet another negative signal at the start of this new political season.

02.09.2025 #STATEMENT

Accord UE-États-Unis : Bruxelles cède, l'agriculture n'obtient rien

L'accord UE-États-Unis récemment conclu, présenté plus en détail dans la déclaration conjointe publiée aujourd'hui, n'apporte rien au secteur agricole de l'UE. Malgré les déclarations publiques faites en Écosse par la présidente de la Commission européenne, Ursula von der Leyen, concernant d'éventuels accords tarifaires « zéro pour zéro » pour certains produits agricoles, la déclaration conjointe ne prévoit aucune mesure d'allègement pour les producteurs européens. On s'attendait au minimum à un allègement tarifaire pour le vin et les spiritueux, une solution approuvée par les parties prenantes tant dans l'UE qu'aux États-Unis, mais cela n'a pas été le cas.

21.08.2025 #PRESSRELEASE

Presentation of the post 2027 MFF/CAP - The Black Wednesday of European Agriculture

Today, European farming organisations mobilised in Brussels for a symbolic march opposing the historic approach taken by the European Commission on two key pillars of European agricultural policy: the future budget framework and the CAP. While harvests are in full swing, the Commission has effectively decided to dismantle the ‘Common’ nature of the CAP through concealed budget cuts under the guise of a so-called ‘Single Fund’, alongside a complete renationalisation justified by the alleged virtue of administrative simplification. Will the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers support what is already shaping up to be the worst reform of the CAP? The coming months will prove decisive.

16.07.2025 #PRESSRELEASE

Copa-Cogeca TV

The EU House of Cards

On Tuesday, 20th May 2025, Copa-Cogeca and its members launched the 1st Pan-European Flash Action against the dilution of the CAP in a Single Fund.

Why is the EU-Mercosur Deal Problematic both to EU consumers and farmers ?t

Who will pay the bill for the EU-Mercosur agreement? For BEUC and Copa-Cogeca, the answer is clear: European farmers and consumers. The reasons explained by the Secretaries-General of both organisations in this video

Video report of the first Copa-Cogeca flash action following the EU-Mercosur agreement

On Monday, 9 December, just hours after the announcement of a political agreement between the European Commission and representatives of the Mercosur bloc, Copa-Cogeca and its members launched a mobilisation against an outdated, unfair agreement with unacceptable cumulative effects for European agriculture.

Are Brazilian farmers satisfied with the EU-Mercosur agreement? The answer is no!

Following our call to mobilise against the EU-Mercosur agreement, Marcos Rochinski, leader of Brazil's Confederation of Family Farm Workers, sent us a video message of support explaining why the agreement is also problematic for them!

One out of every two imported honeys in Europe is fraudulent but it doesn't have to be that way!

This is why Copa-Cogeca would propose one new goal to the Commission: reducing counterfeiting in half by 2027 compared to figures in the analysis carried out in March 2023 with a view to having no adulterated honey present in the European market at all by 2030!


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About us

European agriculture and forestry are incredibly diverse. This diversity is our pride and our strength, and we must do everything in our collective power to protect it! This is why all models of agriculture, all types of production and all sizes of farms and cooperatives are represented within Copa and Cogeca. 

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