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"Commissioner Fischler has just stated in this House that the European initiative to accept, duty-free, imports of products from the least developed countries – the so-called
Everything but arms
initiative – would run the risk of accepting imports of GMO agricultural products. According to Mr Fischler, those countries would be obliged to produce GMO crops in order to increase their productivity. They would have no choice, and we, for our part, would be obliged to buy them and eat them for the sake of assisting development.
If that were to happen, we can see what the danger would be: development aid would be used as a pretext to make us import GMOs and to undermine the protection with which the people of Europe had hoped to defend themselves against such products. Then, later on, these exceptional imports would no doubt be used to argue that, for the sake of consistency, we should abolish all our prohibitions on the growing and selling of GMOs.
For a long time now we have been familiar with this sort of manoeuvre on the part of the Commission. We do not know what interests lie behind such manoeuvres, but we do know who will be the victims: the victims will be the people of Europe."@en1
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