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"At a time of extremely worrying food price surges it is more necessary than ever for the European Parliament to adopt a resolution.
Firstly, the food shortage that is rife in many countries in the world is quite rightly unacceptable. We need to propose emergency measures to bring an end to the famine that is at this very moment afflicting the most vulnerable people in the developing countries. In addition to those emergency measures, which cannot resolve the problem in the long term, the EU must formulate a strategy, in agreement with international organisations such as the World Bank, the IMF, the FAO and the WTO. It must be a basic strategy that tackles all the causes of the crisis: changing food habits in Asia, the rapid rise in the cultivation of biofuels, etc.
Secondly, the worrying rise in the price of the consumer’s shopping basket suggests that we should think deeply about reforming the common agricultural policy. At a time when we are taking stock of the health of the CAP, we must put forward concrete proposals on means of halting the inflation we are seeing even within the internal market, as also of ensuring that the EU is self-sufficient in food."@en1
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