Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-01-17-Speech-2-301"
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"Mr President, Commissioner, the new sugar regime being outlined will be particularly unfortunate for growers. In many areas this means an end to the cultivation of sugar beet. The closure of sugar factories will send farmers and industrial workers into unemployment. Unfortunately, the first demonstrations have already started in my country.
We must set as our objective the survival of our farmers on their farms. We do not need any more urban drift. If we want to replace sugar beet with energy crops, we must be more generous with our aid. Besides, we owe it to the environment, because energy crops mean that we are protecting the environment, although the ACP countries will not fare better in the future under the new regime.
Commissioner, you are a sober, honest and able person. You work with Mr Fruteau, who has made very good proposals, you work with the chairman of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, Mr Daul, you make improvements, you make brave proposals, you demonstrate to those who criticise you that you are not here as a formality and that everything has been decided, but that you want – truly and constructively – to listen to Parliament. In this way you protect the European Union, the European Parliament and European agriculture.
Otherwise, in many disadvantaged areas of Europe we shall see farming disappear, villages abandoned and the ecological deterioration of Europe. For heaven's sake, I do not think that is what you want."@en1
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