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"We supported the Fiori report, which is broadly in the interests of our farmers, but we have to admit that we were appalled by Mr Fischler’s statement, which seems to be moving in the opposite direction.
We have heard him criticise President Bush’s ‘Farm Bill’ (which increases aid to American agriculture by 80% over the period from 2002 to 2007), but in the name of the sacrosanct principles of free trade which form the charter of the World Trade Organization. We do not believe that the problem should be tackled in this way.
In our opinion, the Americans would be within their rights, provided that they did not flood other countries with their products. Instead of condemning them outright, we should make a distinction between internal effects and external effects. We should also ask ourselves whether we too, perhaps, need to support our farmers in some way, and whether, with this in mind, we should perhaps seize the opportunity of the ‘Farm Bill’ to ask our partners for a renegotiation of the principles of the WTO.
If we do not take such action, the principles with which Messrs Fischler and Lamy are threatening the Americans today will rebound on us like boomerangs, and will destroy agriculture in the countries of Europe."@en1
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