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"Mr President, it takes more than a minute to tell a joke, so there is no hope of being able to put a point properly.
We care deeply about the Arab Spring. Morocco has made and is making progress – and it is right that it should do – but this does not mean that we should damage our agricultural economy. It must not result in penalisation of European agriculture, especially in southern Italy and – why not? – for my region Sicily.
I believe there is also a little hypocrisy in all the arguments I have heard. We are justifying the Arab Spring as a necessary condition for all of this to take place, for this agreement to be concluded, while we know perfectly well that Moroccan farmers will benefit from it. We are well aware that major financial groups have already acquired part of those interests and those markets. We are well aware that once more we are taking Europeans for a ride.
I hope that Europe will go back to being political and stop being the Europe of finance when dealing with delicate and important issues like that of agriculture."@en1
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