Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-03-07-Speech-1-243-500"
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"More than 30 farmers are protesting, in the form of a ‘sit-in’, in the European Commission office in Dublin, to demonstrate their belief that the interests of the EU agricultural sector are being sacrificed for the sake of trade. It must be ensured that farmers are not wronged for the sake of trade or used as a bargaining tool in trade negotiations.
To that end, I welcome this forceful and timely report, and the criticism it contains of the surrender by the Commission on agricultural matters in order to gain better access to new markets. It is essential for the competitiveness and sustainability of the EU’s agricultural sector to find new markets for the EU’s high quality goods. However, these arrangements must be to the benefit of the EU agricultural sector, and not to its detriment, as could occur with the Mercosur trade agreement.
Irish agricultural products are of high quality and are consequently very popular, but Irish farmers will not be able to continue as they are if cheaper products of lower quality are permitted to be sold in the EU."@en1
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