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I have voted against the Daul resolution on the CAP mid-term review, which calls for the present European agricultural model to be maintained and reinforced.
This is very bad news for the developing countries and for Africa, where most people live by agriculture. European agricultural subsidies deprive farmers in developing countries of the ability to compete with their European counterparts. Furthermore, export subsidies lead to agricultural surpluses from the EU being dumped in developing countries at prices that are lower than those at which those countries can produce them themselves.
Income support independent of production may be justifiable; export subsidies are not. They distort the market, are fatal for the farmers in the poorest countries and go against all the principles of the liberalisation of world trade. The system is, above all, unfair: while in the 80s, the poorest countries were required by the IMF to abolish subsidies on agriculture, the rich countries still continue to subside their agriculture 20 years on.
Who will end up paying for this? It will be the European taxpayer and the small farmers in the developing countries. The winners will be the large agro-industrial companies."@en1
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