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"Mr President of the Commission, ladies and gentlemen, the Prodi Commission’s term of office will go down in history as the time of the largest and most crucial enlargement in the history of the EU. This enlargement brought into the EU countries which were once divided from it by the Iron Curtain. Yet although the enlargement itself was a success for the Prodi Commission, it is hard to view the conditions upon which it was carried out as such. The Commission imposed tough and unfair negotiating conditions on the candidate countries, and the process of achieving full membership rights and levelling out development differences will be a long one. The firmly established division into an old EU and a new EU will cause problems for us all, and it is a pity that this historic opportunity was not exploited fully. There was a lack of political imagination, and of a vision of a Europe fully committed to solidarity. As a Polish MEP, I am concerned by the tenor of certain changes in agricultural policy. Liberalisation and a departure from the previous protection of the EU agricultural market are a blow to European agriculture, and most of all to farmers in the new Member States. Polish farmers must face up to competition which is doubly unfair. They have to compete on unfair terms both within the EU, as Poland receives significantly lower subsidies, and globally, as the EU is opening up to the global market on a massive scale. Measures to fight global poverty must not be implemented at the cost of perpetuating or intensifying poverty within the EU. The sugar market reforms proposed by the Commission will result in the bankruptcy of a large part of the European sugar industry, and could lead to utter disaster for farmers and producers in Poland. As Polish members of the People’s Party, we want nothing to do with such reforms and such a policy. On the other hand, we very much welcome the Commission’s refusal to give in to pressure to reduce the EU budget. Such a reduction could rob enlargement of its economic sense, and eventually of its political sense also. I would like to congratulate Mr Prodi on having accomplished his mission."@en1
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