Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-02-13-Speech-2-290"
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"Madam President, in this my first speech as Scotland’s representative on the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, I am delighted to find myself in agreement with a very clear majority of this House.
As others have said, voluntary modulation of agriculture payments is not voluntary at all for the farmers who lose out, only for the Member States who are fleecing their budget. The higher compulsory modulation funded across the EU has some logic but only the London Government would argue that Scotland’s farmers should lose out by 20% against their continental colleagues and it is right that we reject this flawed proposal. If we do not reject it, we accept a poor proposal which has been brought before us today.
But in so doing I would stress to our Commissioner that we need to see as much subsidiarity as possible in any eventual package that is brought forward. The Scottish Parliament is not yet a full Member State parliament, but it is responsible for agriculture and food matters in Scotland and it is right that the Scottish Parliament, whoever is in charge of it, should remain the relevant authority for these matters, because whoever is in charge of it will do a better job than the London Government will."@en1
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