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"An already bad idea from the Commission has been made even worse by the amendments tabled by the European Parliament’s Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, particularly when the committee wants to increase the expenditure ceiling from EUR 90 million to EUR 500 million at tax payers’ expense. The committee emphasises that this only concerns fruit that originates within the Community. Fruit originating elsewhere is totally unimportant.
The committee’s proposal, which, in a big brother-like manner, states that seasonal fruit should be distributed, giving preference to a varied range of fruits so as to enable ‘children to discover different tastes’, is completely ridiculous.
Once again, the European Parliament is interfering in education policy. Member States are to ‘incorporate these measures in an educational manner into teaching packages on health and nutrition in schools’.
The majority in this European Parliament have a distorted view of the common agricultural policy. According to MEPs, taxpayers have a horn of plenty with money to throw into agricultural policy and rural development. Thank goodness that the European Parliament does not have the power of codecision in these areas – and that is how it should stay."@en1
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