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"Madam President, since the last reform process, two major dynamics have changed. Twenty-seven countries are now involved and the concept of co-decision with the Council has been introduced. Between them, these two factors are bound to reduce decision-making to a series of shambolic compromises that make a nonsense of the word ‘simplification’.
Commissioner, your train was delayed for four hours today, 12 March, by severe winter weather, yet farmers are expected to solve the non-existent problem of man-made global warming with a series of measures that will do nothing to change the world’s weather but will reduce food production at a time when major world commodities are in a state of under-supply.
As a British MEP, I object to British farmers being told by the green lobby that they do not rotate crops properly, when there is no evidence whatsoever to suggest this. This concern may well be relevant to other parts of Europe where maize is grown continuously. The irony does not escape me that this is largely happening because of the green lobby’s obsession with biofuels. Despite a strong demand for sugar, the reform proposals have the potential to make life difficult for both the sugar cane and the sugar beet sectors in the UK.
In our Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, 11 out of 44 MEPs voted for an amendment to scrap the entire report. That says it all. The EU is simply too big and diverse to adopt a common agricultural policy. This is particularly apparent when decisions on capping and the definitions of ‘eligible farmers’ are concerned. British taxpayers deserve a better return on their investment."@en1
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