In a debate held with Commissioner Dacian Cioloş on the Commission's proposed multiannual EU budget for 2014-2020, EP Agriculture Committee asked for keeping the funding for European agriculture at 2013 levels in real terms.

Some MEPs who attended the debate underlined that the proposed EU budget not reflect enough the new tasks imposed on farmers. They stressed the need to keep the CAP budget at its current size. Comparing figures from the previous long-term budget (2007-2014) with the new proposal, the MEP George Lyon acknowledged that the additional €15 billion, especially money for research, was good news but could hardly be compared with cuts in direct payments worth approximately €40 billion. Although MEPs welcomed the new option for farmers to access the Globalisation Fund, also stressed that the compensation for beef farmers for the deal with Mercosur was not enough.

On the other hand, there were no agreement among MEPs with regard to the greening measures. Whilst some MEPs welcomed the budget proposal and also welcomed the proposal to link 30% of the first pillar funds (direct payments) to the application of greening measures by farmers, others criticises this step because it is too early to implement such measures. However, the Parliament as a whole adopted a resolution on 23 June in which MEPs asked for a greener agricultural policy and called for the long-term agriculture budget to be maintained at least at 2013 levels.

Commissioner Cioloş stressed that the Commission had allocated "new money" to agriculture under different headings, for instance making €2.8 billion from the Globalisation Adjustment Fund available to farmers. In addition, €5.1 billion of 100% EU-funded research and innovation programmes was clearly intended for the agriculture sector. Therefore, according to the Commissioner, this brings to a total amount of €435.5 billion for the farming industry.