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"I should like to emphasise just how much the reaction to the American Farm Bill expressed in this debate by Mr Fischler appears to me to be contrary to the interests of European farming. Fundamentally, even though it involves trade distortions which will need to be examined, the Farm Bill is an expression of an important development in the American position, which now recognises that sustainable agriculture cannot be guaranteed by the rules of free trade alone.
The responsible European attitude would have been to take note of this recognition, on the part of the United States, of the special nature of farming and the impossibility of treating it in the same way as the industry or services sectors, and to propose to the United States that we should act on this joint finding by studying, together, how to put into practice, at world level, this entitlement to national or regional protection of the farming model chosen by the people concerned, in other words by revising the WTO rules to exclude agriculture, and by creating a special world organisation for agriculture.
Instead of doing that, Mr Fischler poses as the herald of the free trade system and recommends that Europe should take the place of the United States as the unconditional champion of the opening up of world agriculture, in other words of a principle which tomorrow will be used to the detriment of our interests and which, if given free rein, will end by destroying our farming."@en1
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