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"We welcome the resolution’s focus upon wanting to reform the common agricultural policy, as well as its emphasis upon the place of the environment, food safety, health and animal protection within that policy. It is also encouraging that the European Parliament wishes to support young farmers and traditional family farms, above all in less favoured areas. We also wish to argue that, as a general principle, food production cannot be placed on an equal footing with industrial production and must therefore be safeguarded by special trade conditions, especially with a view to taking full account of environmental considerations.
We welcome the fact that the original paragraph 21, expressing the view that the Commission’s proposals require the EU budget to be increased up to the ceiling of 1.27% of GDP, was voted down (356 ‘yes’ votes to 135 ‘no’ votes). That would have meant an increase of a good SEK 150 000 million, something which is unacceptable. Nowhere in the resolution is it stated that current agricultural policy is protectionist and hits many of the world’s poorest countries very hard. On the contrary, the impression conveyed is of a defensive policy, with the European Parliament expressing the view that agriculture must benefit from qualified external protection, that is to say be protected against unfair competition from outside.
We have therefore chosen to vote against the whole of paragraph 21 of the resolution and to abstain from voting on the resolution as a whole."@en1
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