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By declaring itself to be in favour of an upper limit for the decoupling of public aid to European tobacco growers, the European Parliament has done belated homage to those who fought against the inception of this perverse mechanism dreamt up by the Commission in order to obtain – successfully, as we know – the WTO’s blessing on income support payments. In fact, by opting for decoupling, the European Union has chosen a system that is bound to hinder young people at the start of their working life, to throw the markets into chaos and to deprive public aid of its legitimacy.
In the case of tobacco, the Commission has in any case anticipated the disappearance of aids that decoupling will bring about, by openly proposing total decoupling in preparation for the complete banning of public aid. Brussels was thus establishing real ‘foreign preference’ and benefiting non-European tobacco producers.
The counter-proposal from the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, which the plenary has just adopted, limits environmental degradation while recoupling most of the aid and acknowledging the real subsidiarity of the Member States. The ball is now back in the Council’s court; from now on, it can rely on the work Parliament has done towards preserving tobacco-growing in Europe, and especially in France."@en1
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