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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, my thanks go to the rapporteur, Mr Leinen, for his excellent work. As my fellow Members have already said, the EU’s 7th Environment Action Programme should be adopted as soon as possible. We are forever making decisions that affect the environment under other headings, as the report says.
One of them is agricultural policy, which affects, for instance, biodiversity, bodies of water and climate. For example, the future of the Baltic Sea environment will largely be addressed through decisions on common agricultural policy. After all, the Baltic is one of the most polluted seas in the world, and its major problem is eutrophication, which is mainly the result of agriculture. If the quantities of phosphorus or nitrogen that are washed off our fields into the rivers and seas are not reduced radically, there is no hope for any improvement in the Baltic Sea, and rafts of toxic blue-green algae will, in future, float on its surface. The environment and the economy are not in opposition, just as the Commission’s report out this week says."@en1
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