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"Madam President, we had yesterday the published reform of the common agricultural policy; spending on the CAP is not going to be cut in absolute terms, and in proportionate terms, it is going to have a massive cut from 40% of the budget to 38 point something. My point is not to rehearse all of the manifold failings of that system: the wanton damage it does to developing countries, in Africa in particular; the ecological cataclysm that it has caused in Europe with the felling of hedgerows; the encouraging of pesticides and chemical fertilisers; or indeed the way in which it penalises the poor both through their taxes and through higher prices. My point is that such a system has shown itself to be incapable of reform.
We delude ourselves when we think that we can get in and argue our case, and be reasonable, and change these bureaucracies and these mechanisms into something different from what they were set up to be. We have reached the point where there is no point in persuading ourselves that we need more treatment, more antibiotics. We have to face the reality that amputation is now the only way to save ourselves."@en1
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