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"Mr President, Mrs Herranz García, I very much welcome this motion for a resolution, and I should like to thank the rapporteur for having ensured that it also covers the situation in the new Member States.
Polish farmers have voiced objections to production quotas, and complained that they are finding it difficult to sell their products. In the limited time available to me, I should like to touch upon an issue which may be minor, but is nevertheless of great importance. Fruit and vegetables in the EU are over-priced. In addition, fruit is overripe and tasteless. We should improve the quality of our products and ensure that there continues to be a rich diversity of varieties, especially as far as seasonal fruit is concerned. In Poland it is still possible to buy extremely flavoursome varieties of apple that I have never seen, and undoubtedly never will see, in Brussels. I only ever eat tomatoes and cucumbers in Poland, because they lack any taste in the old EU. We should offer cheaper and fresher fruit and vegetables to our citizens, whilst ensuring that fruit and vegetable growers are paid a decent wage. We should not allow the abundance of local fruit varieties to be diminished."@en1
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