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"The impassioned debate that has been taking place on the EU-Morocco agreement is preventing us from keeping a cool head when the situation is extremely sensitive and complicated. I am aware of the strategic nature of this agreement, the importance of greater integration of our economies around the Mediterranean Basin, and the safeguard clauses that the Commission has tried to negotiate.
I would also like to welcome the efforts that the Kingdom of Morocco has made to improve its employment law, to respond to certain environmental restrictions, and to support the deep changes in its agriculture with the ‘Green Morocco’ plan. Above all, I would like to give them my support in their political reforms in these times of great instability.
However, given the almost saturated situation of the vegetable market in Europe, the situation of our farmers who have been hit hard by the crisis, and their fears of unfair competition, social dumping and environmental dumping, I cannot vote for this agreement.
For all these reasons, I have decided to abstain, while hoping that the Commission will become aware that free trade agreements cannot be made if they threaten the survival of our agriculture."@en1
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