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"I voted against the European Parliament’s resolution on the next round of WTO agriculture negotiations, for two reasons.
Firstly, the resolution approves the general action of the Commission, which has agreed to undertake worldwide negotiations on the agricultural sector, with the prospect of accelerated liberalisation, even though the content of the reform of the European CAP will not be decided on until later. In other words, the Commission is trying to force our hand. Secondly, the negotiating offer submitted by the Commission on behalf of the European Union proposes that export subsidies should be reduced (which is acceptable given the harm that they can cause to poorer countries), but also that there should be an average reduction of 36% in our protection against imports. In other words, we would be dismantling Community preference just that little bit more.
What we should be doing, in fact, is to establish a general principle of regional preference, in which each country or group of countries has the right to preserve its agricultural model. In order to do this, we would have to remove agriculture from the WTO rules. Once again, the Commission is manoeuvring us, and one can only deplore the approval expressed by the French Government at the General Affairs Council on 27Â January."@en1
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