On Thursday, August 16th, at the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA), the European Commission (EC) Representation in Latvia and the EC Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development presented the EC’s new proposals for the EU multiannual budget beyond 2028 to farmers, food producers, fishermen, forestry sector NGOs, MoA experts, and others. As previously reported, immediately after the publication of this proposal, Minister for Agriculture Armands Krauze strongly objected to the EC’s proposals, calling them completely unacceptable, as they threaten Latvia’s agriculture, fisheries, and food production sectors in the near future. The proposals foresee reducing EU support funding for agriculture by one quarter and for fisheries by as…