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"Madam President, two brothers were given a bag of sweets by their parents. ‘Let us share them out fairly,’ said the older brother, to which the younger one replied, ‘I would rather we shared them equally.’ This story describes the relations between the old and the new Member States when it comes to agriculture. Old States receive more, and new ones several times less. We understand that this is a transition period, but why should this situation persist beyond 2013? Why should the new States continue to receive proportionally two or three times less than the old States? We keep hearing that this is fair, and that there are historical reasons for this. But we do not want fairness, we want equality. There was some justification for the inequalities under the production subsidies system, which favoured farmers who produced more. However, now that we have moved to area subsidies, there is no further justification for this discrimination. It must end after 2013 and there must be no division into old and new members. We, the new members, want to be old too!"@en1
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