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"Madam President, the European Parliament has adopted the report on the common agricultural policy (CAP) towards 2020. I voted against it, because the measures it proposes are not real reforms, but only cosmetic and minor changes which support and maintain the current unfair CAP. After 20 years of stagnation in food production in Europe and low incomes for farmers we have had enough.
We have forgotten that seven and five years ago the Union was enlarged by new Member States, which were given a low level of support and which were promised that after 2013 the payments would be equalised. I want to underscore this clearly: a strong second pillar should be maintained, and this should include retention of the current criteria for distribution of funds, which take account of differences in the level of development of individual Member States. Finally, greater coordination is needed between regional policy and the common agricultural policy in rural areas. Some of the responsibilities of the second pillar of the common agricultural policy should be transferred to cohesion policy. Rural areas have the right to pursue their own development using money available under regional policy.
I would like to say one more thing, and that is that Mr Barroso’s statement about the possibility of cuts to the second pillar means that he does not have a real knowledge of the seriousness of the problem."@en1
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