Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-03-14-Speech-2-208"
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"Although I have signed this question, as an elected representative, I must say that I am not really its author. As the Commissioner can imagine, the question is posed by farmers, in the European countryside, who are wondering, at this stage, whether they, their income and their Community aid, will have to pay the price of enlargement. The Commissioner has not been explicit. However, his services, the Commission, and some of us MEPs, all know that there are studies and estimates covering this issue.
The Commissioner is, at times, the master of side-stepping the question, with all the skill of a bullfighter, and failing to provide an answer. However, the Commission, if it wants the countryside to support its positions, must clear the fog, and be explicit. Therefore, I would ask the Commission, if it does not want to talk of its data and studies – which exist – at least to calm this real fear of the farmers and reply as to whether the cost of enlargement will be met at the expense of the farmers’ income and, furthermore, whether he can guarantee that it will not have an effect on Community aid."@en1
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