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"On behalf of the French Members of the National Front, I would like to stress that the Supplementary and Amending Budget 1/2001, which provides for EUR 971 million to manage the BSE crisis, is insufficient even before it has been adopted. Yet, that is not the most important point. What is more important is that today we have been handed the death certificate of the CAP, which some Members will welcome. We do not.
There were many giveaway signs of Europe’s predictable weak points. At the WTO conference held last year in Seattle, the American delegates and the Cairns delegation had already wanted to dismantle the CAP by withdrawing export refunds and internal funding, whereas they themselves have never before subsidised their agricultural industry so much, providing USD 23 billion for 2001 alone.
The BSE crisis has been caused by a global free trade policy and a lack of border controls and it seems to have put the nail in the coffin of the CAP, all the more so because Germany which, since Nice, has become the most powerful country in Europe, refuses to make an extra effort to help farmers who are in crisis, the innocent victims of the industrialisation of agriculture. Undeniably, José Bové and his friends are the Americans’ impartial allies in this matter, in as much as they would like to see the CAP destroyed, some of them so that they can take over our markets again and others in the name of the ‘class struggle’ and of ‘Third Worldism’. The Americans will take advantage of our divisions to take over from their only serious competitor on world markets and to dominate the food industry again.
Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to reiterate that the original CAP was based on the concept of Community preference and financial solidarity and that Europe has become both self-sufficient and a major exporter of high-quality agricultural food products because of it.
Today, we are again hearing the terms ‘cofinancing’, ‘renationalisation’ and ‘codecision’ used to refer to the agricultural industry – these are words which seemed to have disappeared from our vocabulary since the Berlin Summit in March 1999. This is one of the signs that France no longer has the required levels of authority and commitment within Europe to defend its own interests, as Mr Chirac and Mr Jospin demonstrated at Nice."@en1
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