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The deep grievances of Portuguese farmers against this profoundly unfair common agricultural policy are longstanding. It is always being said that Portugal and its agriculture benefit less than any other European Union Member State from the CAP.
I voted for the amendments advocating the complete rejection of the European Commission’s proposals because I wanted to register politically the fact that the Portuguese people were unhappy and disappointed with the Commission’s original proposals. These did not even begin to constitute a satisfactory response to our legitimate expectations.
Nevertheless, I do acknowledge the excellent work carried out by Mr Cunha, as well as the need for CAP reform. The latter is indispensable both for financial reasons – that is to say, reasons linked to negotiations with the World Trade Organisation – and because of consumers’ demands and the need to respond to a new type of demand, oriented less towards production and more towards the rural world. I believe that the European Parliament’s position has the merit of directing the reform towards more reasonable, balanced and fair positions, principally because of the gradualism and prudence it introduces. I would still like to give Commissioner Fischler the benefit of the doubt, as he guaranteed at the end of the debate that the Commission would now support Mediterranean produce as strongly as it has supported other production. For these reasons, I supported most of Parliament’s proposals but abstained from the final vote."@en1
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