Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-06-03-Speech-2-180"
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"Commissioner Fischler, you are very talented, above all in that you have packaged your reform perfectly. You use the phrase ‘mid-term review’ to describe what is actually a mid-term liquidation. Indeed, you justify it with popular, I dare not say populist, clichés: animal welfare, strictly sustainable development, food quality and environmental protection. In reality, the rural development will not be sustainable as young people will not settle in the countryside. As for quality, it will be the quality of global food, and we will align our prices.
However, the technical construction of your 2004 CAP is just as skilful. You present it as a new model, thanks to decoupling. Yet, back in 1992, farmers’ incomes were decoupled from agricultural prices, and now you are decoupling direct aid from agricultural production itself. In fact, the long and short of the reform is that you are paying for the sickle and even the bone. How long are you going to pay this direct aid that is decoupled, partially decoupled, modulated, controlled, audited, ‘ecoconditionalised’? That is where you have a great deal of talent, even extraordinary, Machiavellian talent.
The CAP is now 40 years old. Your objective is to make it last for another 10 years, until around 2013-2014, and all the curves stop in 2013. The CAP is only funded until 2012. The milk quotas stop around 2013-2014. In 2012, farmers aged 50 today will, for the most part, be retired. In the meantime, they are safe for 10 years, and if they are safe for 10 years, they are going to be paid for 10 years, quite apart from the young people. They have therefore no reason to protest, and if they do not protest, there will be no unrest in the countryside. If there is no unrest in the countryside, the French, who are the main opponents of the reform, have no reason not to back it. Even the United States, in Cancun, will accept your reform with the Group of Fifteen because it is a reprieve. Moreover, the distinction between compulsory expenditure and non-compulsory expenditure has been removed in the European Constitution itself.. As a result, Parliament will have the last word on agricultural expenditure and there is an ultraliberal majority here. That means that, by 2013, a majority will do away with direct aid, whether decoupled, partially decoupled, modulated or not modulated. European farmers will thus become extinct as they will be operating in a market where US farmers are bombarded with funds.
Commissioner, we will be left with a caricature of agriculture, strictly Austrian in nature. That is why, Commissioner, you are the ideal man, you are the man for the job, you are Sissi the Farmer Empress!"@en1
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