Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-09-25-Speech-2-028"
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"Mr President, the reform of the sugar market is one of those reforms whose sense is very hard to explain to farmers in the European Union, including farmers in my country, Poland. The administrative and financial pressure to cut back sugar production from 18 to 12 million tonnes is not convincingly justified. There is talk of a need for solidarity with farmers on other continents, though it is clear that this is not about their interests: it is not about farmers’ interests so much as the global interests of large concerns. In the name of these interests, the European Union, under the auspices of successive ‘reforms’, is gradually disposing of its agriculture and setting forth down the very hazardous road of making itself dependent on food supplies from outside. This policy is leading to a loss of security in food supplies, a security that is of great importance to future generations. My fear is that it will not be long before everyone, and not just farmers, will regret these irresponsible reforms which are going on today, the harmful consequences of which we shall all soon recognise."@en1
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