Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-09-05-Speech-2-031"
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"Mr President, we all understand the difficulty and the complexity surrounding the WTO negotiations and we support the Commissioner and his team. The EU put a good deal on the table; we were waiting for serious counter-offers and were sadly disappointed by what came back.
Surely now is the time for the EU to show moral courage and leadership. Has the Commission considered the potential costs and benefits of the EU unilaterally eliminating all its subsidies and import tariffs on agricultural products and how this might benefit the EU, developing countries and the WTO negotiations?
In New Zealand, farmers screamed when their subsidies were abolished. Yet New Zealand farmers are now amongst the most efficient in the world, in fact forcing other trade blocs to put up tariffs and barriers to their products.
We no longer live in a post-war Europe where food security was a legitimate concern. Surely we need to bring the farmers of the EU into the 21st century and show moral leadership in setting dates for the abolition of both subsidies and tariffs so that less-developed countries can benefit with new markets for their produce, EU farmers would become amongst the most efficient in the world, and we would secure the goal of services liberalisation, releasing the talents of Europe onto the world."@en1
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