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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I began my career as a diplomat in the Soviet Union, where a vast number of issues was classified as secret, state secret, that is. I would never have imagined that the classification of Less-Favoured Areas could constitute a secret in the European Union. My fellow Members have already mentioned all the important arguments; I find this situation absurd. In my home country, and in the narrower region from where I come, that is, the Sand Plateau of the Danube–Tisza interfluve in central Hungary, classified by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) as a semi-desert, farmers cannot tell whether their region will now be considered a Less-Favoured Area or not, despite the fact that without irrigation they will be unable to make a living. I therefore fully agree with the rapporteur, Mr Dorfmann, and with all my fellow Members that what the European Council and the European Commission – absent from this debate – are doing is a disgrace."@en1
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