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Mr President, the rules of the common agricultural policy have been being flagrantly violated in many markets in the industry for some time now. The sugar market is just one more disreputable example of this. The reform of this market adopted barely two years ago contained unfair solutions for the new Member States, as it gave preference to a few old Member States which generate surpluses in the so-called B quotas that are costly to the taxpayer. One of the aims of the reform was to improve competitiveness in the sector. Those who were supposed to remain in the market were those who were most competitive. The revision that is currently being proposed is aimed at punishing those who are most competitive. After all, that is what the introduction of new factors and the increased compensation with retroactive effect will achieve. Is there any logic to be discerned in what is going on here?
When the interests of the old EU are challenged, principles go out of the window. Solidarity or an equal chance to compete no longer means a thing.
This is true of the entire agricultural sector in which the richer countries get the larger subsidies. All attempts to do away with discrimination against the poorer new Member States run up against the disarming sincerity of representatives of the older States – you are right, they say, but we are not going to open up ‘Pandora's box’. But now, looking at the sugar sector, the arrangement that was signed up to not very long ago can be changed! Just because it is affecting the interests of the older Member States and the big concerns."@en1
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