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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, our fellow citizens understand only too well that the agreements resulting from the Millennium Round will seriously affect their personal and professional lives. The Uruguay Round offered producers and consumers a . Let us not allow this to happen again. Look around. The farmers are justifiably concerned for their future and it is our duty to listen to them. Repeated food scandals, the dictates of large-scale distributors, the European desire to give handouts to the agricultural world, we have been spared none of it. This is the logic of globalisation ordered by certain people who should now be called into question. Otherwise the Millennium Round will become the death warrant of our farmers, our countryside, our land, and this is something that we must not accept. These negotiations should be aimed at the promotion and prosperity of our peoples and not simply at the defence of the great financial powers. We must leave behind this ultra-free trade logic which standardises the market. It does not guarantee the fair defence and promotion of our interests, which are European interests because they are primarily local, regional and national. It falls to us to ensure the continuity of our employment, our production and our quality of life. Europe will thereby find its justification. The current situation shows that we are liable to incur retaliatory measures, while we simply intend to protect …"@en1
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"(T he President cut the speaker off)"1

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