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"Small farmers, at least in France, have the highest rate of suicide. This is due to the stress of their uncertain future. The reform of the CAP, however, only increases this uncertainty.
After 2006, therefore, will twenty-five States be able to survive on an agricultural budget that was designed for just 15 and has not been changed? After the WTO Summit in Cancun in September 2003, what will become of the internal and export aid criticised by the line adopted in Doha?
Granting the European Parliament competence for agricultural codecision and giving this House the final say on the agriculture budget, which stipulates that spending for our small farmers would no longer be mandatory, is placing European farmers in the hands of a majority of our fellow Members who, as we all know, are ultra-liberal, in favour of free trade and against small farmers.
We can no longer accept that the future of small farmers should be at the mercy of Anglo-Saxon liberal fundamentalists who are the equivalent of Al Qaida in the crazy religion of trade. Moreover, I am not talking about the uncertainty that will result, in the draft of the new CAP, from decoupling production revenue, modulation or bureaucratic audits.
That is why, when so many questions remain unanswered, our small farmers cannot plan their investments and their future. We must not allow our small farmers to be plunged into this abyss."@en1
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