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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, have the Community institutions been infected by the prion? In other words, has the European Union gone so far down the path of madness that it would sacrifice the oldest and most complete of its common policies, by which I mean the common agricultural policy, when, paradoxically, it is also imposing and stepping up the integration process in the other sectors. Our group has many reservations about the SAB which was adopted on Monday by the Committee on Budgets, and is even openly opposed to it, since the Committee is challenging the traditional distinction between compulsory and non-compulsory expenditure, that the report is trying to force us to accept. Of course, EUR 971 million is not enough by far given the serious nature of the situation; it is merely a starting point to mainly fund the ‘purchase for destruction’ scheme and possibly the screening tests, if necessary. But then what will we do?
The crisis is so extensive that direct aid should naturally have been released immediately in order to support farmers’ affected income and the beef industry as a whole. There are sufficient funds for that. Once the SAB is adopted, there will be a margin of approximately EUR 500 million. We know that huge savings can be made on some of the budget lines. For example, we would make instant savings by reducing the aid given for setting aside agricultural land, which would pave the way for protein crops. Europe depends to a great extent on the United States for its supply of these as a result of the Blair House agreements.
By rejecting direct aid funded from the Community budget, as proposed by France, the Commission and the Council are preparing for the renationalisation of agriculture. If this goes ahead, we will have to bear all the consequences of any such renationalisation.
In the first instance, we must acknowledge the failure of European integration, a failure upon which we must reflect before undertaking further common policies, particularly on a single currency."@en1
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