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"Mr President, I was always amazed at the Commissioner’s optimism throughout these talks. Many of us believed that they were doomed from the start, specifically because the EU gave too much too soon, while the US gave very little at the beginning and remained dogged in its position.
There has been too much focus on agriculture, which you have said yourself, Commissioner. Too much blame is now being levelled at agriculture for this apparent failure of the talks. Doha was oversold for its potential for lifting the poor out of poverty. I have said here before that the poor are used far too often in far too many negotiations. Their interests were not being best served in the talks that have gone on to date.
The price for EU agriculture and for EU consumers in terms of food supply is enormous – you have outlined it to us here this morning: downsizing by USD 20 billion a year. I wonder whether we could put names and faces on that downsizing. We are retracting from milk, poultry and grain markets, not to mention beef. I do not know many poor farmers who will gain from that, but I know many in the G20 who are not poor and who would gain significantly. In my view, no deal
better than a bad deal.
If the world’s poor need food to eat and clean water to drink – and we know they do – then Doha was never going to deliver that to them. I am sorry to say that, but that is the case. We need to add to that the real threat here for the European Union. We have raised standards of food production; we have environmental and animal welfare issues. These were never on the table at Doha, so we were never going to have fair trade for farmers globally.
I have some questions to ask the Commissioner, one of which is very specific. I shall answer the first myself: will world trade – free trade – deliver sufficient global food supply? I think not. We need to look after food production just as we are concerned about energy now. Lastly, what about CAP reforms? We have them on the table; we are going to have to give more. Is that what we have ended up with at the table now, in giving too much too soon?"@en1
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