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"Mr President, liberalisation of the sugar market is a complex problem, and one that requires our particular attention. The European Parliament demonstrated its awareness of this fact by adopting a resolution on the future reform of the common market organisation for sugar on 10 March 2005. Unfortunately, the European Commission ignored this resolution. In July 2005, it presented three proposals for regulations that undermined the meaning of the resolution that the House had adopted. Parliament was ignored for a second time on 24 November 2005, when the Council adopted a final version of the reform without asking the House for its opinion, and in the face of opposition from the Polish and Greek Agriculture Ministers. This has led to us being presented with proposals that violate the principle of European solidarity, and whose aim is to ensure that the sugar market is reformed at the expense of smaller countries, in particular the new EU Member States. A further aim is to ensure that European sugar production is concentrated in Germany and France. The proposed solutions will work to the disadvantage of farmers and sugar factory workers, and to the advantage of the large sugar companies. The individual and the principle of partnership have fallen by the wayside in this reform. The new Member States have privatised their sugar factories, yet the vast majority of such factories in Poland were taken over by foreign owners at a mere one third of the price that they will now be paid for stopping production. The situation is similar in many other countries. For these and many other reasons, I would suggest that all three proposals be rejected, and that a new reform be drafted that would in keeping with Parliament’s resolution of 10 March 2005."@en1

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