Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-04-04-Speech-2-148"
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"en.20060404.18.2-148"2
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"This own-initiative report sheds light on the EU’s double standards in international trade policy. There is a lot of enthusiastic talk about the need for developing economies to open up their markets to European companies. At the same time, the rapporteur says that EU agriculture has a ‘multifunctional character’, which there is a ‘need to respect’.
We believe that, in the long term, free trade leads to a better world. Account must, however, be taken of different countries’ levels of development. If, at the beginning too of the development process, trade is to have the effect of reducing poverty, the EU must modify its trade policy by abolishing agricultural aid and allowing poor countries to compete on good conditions.
Because the report for the most part contains negative wordings, we voted against it in today’s vote."@en1
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