Political agreement on new direction for the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) post-2013.

The first policy elaborated by the EU the Common Agricultural Policy has been a powerful instrument of European unification and, despite demographical and economic challenges, it remains the main common policy. The data demonstrate that, in the new financial framework 20142020, the CAP expenditure for the EU-28 has a decreasing share in the EU budget. In this paper we want to point out the main CAP directions in the interval 2007-2013 and the new directions post2013. Our results emphasize the importance of financing agriculture in the Multi-Annual Financial Framework 2014-2020 and the main changes proposed for the next years.