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"en.20070925.4.2-022"2
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Mr President, the European sugar industry is on life-support. The respirator, now the EU, each year gives millions of euros in direct aid and intervention to European sugar growers. EU taxpayers are financing an antiquated system which has seen its day. Unfortunately the Committee’s proposals mean higher costs and a slower rate of reform, the direct opposite of adjustment to the market which this uncompetitive sector so badly needs.
Sugar-producing countries outside the EU must be given access to the internal market without restrictions. International trade based on fairer conditions is a means for less developed countries to compete on the global market. Liberalisation of the sugar industry would also benefit European consumers. They would avoid having to finance an artificial system of support for producers through their taxes
they would see lower prices in the shops. This would benefit everyone."@en1
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