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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, it is now perfectly clear that we must rebuild a European agricultural model. Instead of having a model based exclusively on production, we must instead redefine a multifunctional agricultural policy which provides social balance and job stability, land management and respect for the environment. I believe that this political choice is, without doubt, the right choice. However, it also brings a challenge with it, that is, to reform the European common agricultural policy so as to adapt it to the requirements of the twenty-first century in order to guarantee a future for the European agricultural model in an increasingly globalised economy. This is an ambitious project but one that is crucial. We must allocate the resources to achieve this ambition by gradually re-allocating a significant part of the Community budget of the ‘market’ pillar to the ‘rural development’ pillar, whilst encouraging all types of agricultural businesses, and particularly the most fragile. This is because Europe must not sacrifice the crops that it does not consider sufficiently profitable on the altar of outright profit.
Ladies and gentlemen, I am also speaking to you on behalf of the producers of the outermost regions, who sometimes feel abandoned when faced with the breaking up of many COMs imposed by the WTO under pressure from the Americans. The sugar cane/sugar/rum industry provides almost 40 000 jobs in the French overseas departments; the banana industry provides 65 000 jobs in the West Indies and the Canaries. It is important not only for the survival of these regions, but also for the defence of the European agricultural model. If we cease to support these crops, we shall be leaving the way open to Latin American multinationals, which consider the respect of social and environmental standards, or even human dignity itself, to be of secondary importance. And we will be turning our back on the agricultural industry that we wish to build, an industry that is committed to environmental preservation, consumer protection and an industry that is concerned with the economic, social and also territorial cohesion of the European Union."@en1
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