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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I should like to draw your attention, on behalf of the Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance, to the importance of the common agricultural policy and of the role of the Commissioner assigned to the agriculture portfolio.
The CAP, to which the European Union still devotes almost half of its budget, does indeed loom large for the EU. What, moreover, is at stake is the future of our rural areas, our food, our health and our relations with developing countries, as well as making a success of enlargement.
In fact, the position of the majority of farmers is now very difficult, and this in spite of a food-processing industry that, in itself, is flourishing. What with the disappearance of small to medium-sized farms due to the persistent injustices linked to subsidies; trade wars that have little to do with the fair competition otherwise enjoined upon us; the deterioration of the environment, including our soil and water; and ever more standardised and artificial food, the CAP has, in our view, a very great deal to answer for.
The reform adopted in 2003, which is still very liberal in its inspiration, does not, unfortunately, enable these problems to be treated satisfactorily, and your answers on the subject have been particularly feeble and evasive. We would therefore ask you right now to take a very serious look at these issues. We cannot approve a Commission that comes up with such feeble answers in this area."@en1
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