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"Mr President, many of my constituents have contacted me regarding being disadvantaged by an uneven playing field in the direct payments and CAP in general. Direct payments, or direct subsidies to farmers, account for three quarters of the CAP budget, which, of course, is 48% of the EU budget, so it is quite a considerable amount of money. However, the Conservative-led British Government is reluctant to make use of some of those discretionary funds that are available to support our farmers. In fact, they are increasing the uneven playing field by wishing to voluntarily reduce direct payments faster than any other Member State, which is why I will be voting against Amendments 1 to 12 and 13.
The struggles of UK farmers are compounded by the Commission’s ongoing use of the historical distribution key to allocate Pillar 2 funds between Member States. This discrimination against the UK primarily needs to stop. We need a fairer allocation of Pillar 2 farmers and to protect our farmers in the UK."@en1
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