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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-06-05"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Vote2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030605.3.4-119"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-06-05-Speech-4-1202
lpv:speaker	lp:Erik Meijer2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Socialistische Partij (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (1999-10-13--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Slovak Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Czech Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	". Since industrialisation, food prices have been kept artificially low, which has also enabled industrial wages to remain low. Since then, farmers have been forced to produce more and more for ever decreasing rewards. The EU subsidy system was a means of achieving greater economies of scale and increasing production per hectare. Revenues from taxes go some way towards compensating farmers for their lack of income. The survival of small-scale farmers and villages in southern Europe has become highly dependent on this subsidy policy. They therefore regard the current common agricultural policy as the best the EU can offer, even if they would like to see funds allocated more fairly. They regard every change as a brutal, neoliberal attack. They are afraid that a new system will only serve as a subsidy on land ownership and land speculation and will not be able to stop the depopulation of the countryside. In northern Europe, on the other hand, most of the small farmers have already been ‘cleared away’, and public opinion regards the agricultural funds as a kind of bureaucracy, a waste of money and environmental pollution which must be brought to an end as soon as possible. I did and do agree with the demand to switch from production subsidies to income guarantees and the protection of the landscape. The current proposal, however, seems to be primarily aimed at winning over the Americans in the WTO with a view to exporting other EU products."@en1

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