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"Today’s debate on measures to simplify the fruit and vegetable market has prompted me to voice more general considerations on the nature of changes to the common agricultural policy. As an MEP from Poland, a new Member State, both I and many of my colleagues have been taken aback by the sudden change that has become apparent in the EU’s overall approach to the economy, and in particular to agriculture.
Before we joined the EU, we regarded it as a closed structure and a closed market, to which we could only gain access with great difficulty. Now that we are in the EU, we hear of nothing but liberalisation. We are supposed to liberalise our markets in fruit and vegetables, sugar and milk and everything else under the sun, and open them up to the rest of the world. We joined a different EU to the one we are in now. Poland produces half of all soft fruit in the EU, including cherries, currants and raspberries, and Polish Members of this House have called on the Commission on several occasions and via a number of channels to put protective measures in place for the soft fruit market. Each and every time we were told that this would not happen, because the market needed to be liberalised, and that we must open up our market in order to show solidarity with poor countries wishing to export goods onto our markets.
Solidarity is a fine word, and we Poles are particularly aware of its value. Yet solidarity must not mean inflicting other people’s poverty upon us. We cannot allow our farmers to go bankrupt and fall into poverty so that other people can sell their products in the EU. A particularly good reason why this must not be allowed is that there are serious concerns that liberalisation is of greater benefit to speculators than to farmers from poor countries. I continue to believe that it would be a good idea to put protective measures in place and to impose restrictions on imports of fruit onto the EU market. I support Mrs Herranz García’s report in full, and I very much appreciate the work she has put into drafting it."@en1
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