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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the beneficiaries of the European Union’s food aid programme include not only the poor to whom food is distributed, but also those corporations and enterprises that obtain these enormous sums via public procurement procedures. It is not without relevance who these companies are. I urge my fellow Members to investigate to whom these sums are distributed in their own Member States. I did, and the results were quite shocking. Hungary received an amount of almost HUF 4 billion in food aid, and a considerable portion of that money was distributed among enormous corporate giants rather than small and medium-sized enterprises. To give you just a few figures, Gyermely Zrt. received HUF 660 million, and Diamant Zrt. HUF 333 million. Both corporations, by the way, belong to a group of companies on which serious fines had been imposed for their prior involvement in cartel activities.
What interest could a Member State have in distributing these public funds among such corporate giants while what we actually say is that we support SMEs? It would be quite welcome if no Member State of the European Union made smallholders and SMEs feel that if they are not close to those in power, both politically and economically speaking, then they can only be losers, as is the case, for example, with those Hungarian farmers who are losing access to state lands in tender procedures because those, too, can only be awarded to friends, pals and cronies, just like these enormous food aid funds."@en1
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