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"Madam President, whenever it is stated that the ACP countries will suffer if the EU’s chaotic sugar arrangements are abolished, the underlying agenda is always protection of the EU’s own production. If the ACP countries are to suffer as a result of these arrangements being abolished, it is of course because, with our absurd trading system, we have kept them in conditions resembling those of slavery, and if slaves are freed without being helped to cope successfully, they are obviously in a worse situation than before.
We should help the ACP countries to develop sustainable production. It is grotesque that we only give them a pittance, when we richly reward our own sugar producers and sugar industry. The sum of EUR 200 million proposed by Glenys Kinnock is an absolute minimum. There is a lot of money to be saved by phasing out the common organisation of the market in sugar, so such compensation is amply affordable. We should also be very pleased about the fact that many developing countries would benefit from the liberalisation of the sugar market. The social and environmental problems that are demonstrably to be found in many places must be solved through the ILO and the environmental conventions. We must support those forces that are endeavouring to have the relevant requirements implemented, for example in Brazil, and, above all, we must have those requirements accepted by the WTO as obvious trading conditions."@en1
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