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"Mr President, Commissioner, the common market organisation for sugar worked. It was cheap and offered access to our market to ACP countries.
However, during the WTO negotiations, Thailand, Australia and particularly Brazil insisted on a sugar monopoly. At the same time, to win allies during the Doha Round, Pascal Lamy, who was at the time European Commissioner for Trade, offered to abolish customs duty for the 49 least developed countries with the ‘Everything but arms’ programme. In 2009-2010, Europe will begin to see imports of sugar in theory from poor countries, but which was produced with Kuwaiti, Saudi or other capital, in the Sudan or elsewhere.
European beet growers and sugar producers in outermost regions must therefore be sacrificed for the benefit of Brazil and other countries, hence the 2006 reform. The same applies to cereals and milk. Soon it will apply to wine. Our producers will disappear, which in Europe is what we call ‘restructuring’.
Of course, we pay cereal growers to stop growing crops: we call it ‘restructuring aid’, like the set-aside payment or the grubbing-up premium.
However, 18 months after this aid programme began, it is not working. Commissioner, you are giving us the same old speech about grain mountains and milk lakes. You are saying that in 2007-2008, there will be a 4 million tonne surplus, hence the two proposals today for a regulation to obtain the abandonment, apparently, of almost 4 million tonnes of sugar. We are increasing financial incentives and annual withdrawals, and additional payments and subsidies. Of course, this aid will stop after 2010 and our farmers will be wiped out, just like the ACP producers, not to mention workers. The only winners will be importers.
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have been applied to cereals since 1993. At 9 o’clock, Mr Parish told us that there was a wheat shortage, that prices were rocketing and that set-aside needed to be abandoned. So there is some hope at least: in 2011, there will be a new regulation telling us that there is a sugar shortage and that we need to start growing it again!"@en1
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