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Europe is strongly divided over the debate currently taking place on the future of the common agricultural policy. Basically, on one side, there are the advocates of multifunctional farming, of which I am one, who find it unacceptable that 80% of Community aid should end up in the purses of 20% of the farmers, and, on the other side, there are the defenders of the status quo.
In this respect, Mr Kanbhai’s report gives me the opportunity to put paid to a rumour which is all too often spread about and which I consider to be erroneous, namely that the European Union is closed to exports coming from the world’s poorest countries. The implication is that we are falling short of our duty of solidarity towards the developing countries by implementing a protectionist agricultural policy focusing solely on European farmers.
Where does this rumour come from, considering that the European Union imports more agricultural products from developing countries than from the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia and New Zealand taken together? Lies, I suppose.
Are we to infer from this that boosting trade and agricultural deregulation are the essential pillars of development policy?"@en1
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