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"Mr President, the potato starch industry risks facing too hard a blow in the new period starting in 2012, after decades of a dependence on subsidies which has been unhealthy
. Thousands of jobs are already at stake in the Northern Netherlands alone, an economically vulnerable area without many other large employers. However, all these people, in Groningen and elsewhere, want to continue living and working in their own region. A balanced distribution of jobs is important in all European regions, and that includes prosperous Northern Europe. We therefore need transitional rules. It is the responsibility of the EU to ensure that these are in place. That does not have to mean any extra costs. We have some spare funds from previous years in this sector, because the harvests in those years were disappointing. In addition, it is possible to make adjustments to the agricultural budget. Of course, subsidies for potato starch must end in 2012. Nobody is questioning that and the sector itself has resigned itself to this fact. Having said that, this industry does need to have a future because it is an industry in the heart of our rural communities which offers new alternatives to oil producers and will therefore soon become indispensable."@en1
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