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"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the voluntary modulation proposed by the European Commission, and rightly rejected by the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and by the Committee on Budgets, is a result of the European Union’s extremely low budget, which has been set at just 1% of GDP. In drawing up the 2007-2013 Financial Perspective, both the Council and Commission knew full well that cutting funding for rural areas from EUR 88 billion to EUR 69 billion would result in a painful shortage of funding. Attempting to correct expenditure on the CAP and particular elements of it has only led to confusion and deepened regional imbalances. Trying to remedy this mistake by cutting direct payments – and impoverishing farmers in the process – is the worst of all possible solutions. The proposed nationalisation of the CAP through an additional voluntary modulation of 20% is further evidence of inconsistency in shaping the CAP, and an attempt to re-nationalise it. Ladies and gentlemen, we therefore have no choice but to reject the Commission’s proposal."@en1

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