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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the institutions of the European Union are making up for long-standing neglect. If there is anyone who is interested in having us sort out European agriculture and make it transparent, it is the European agricultural sector.
The rapporteur, Mr Chatzimarkakis, whom I would like to congratulate, put it very well in saying that the European Union does not have a good image in the eyes of European citizens, and they have most often made European agriculture a scapegoat. Therefore, at this late hour, I would like to quote General de Gaulle, who said that we must stand on the brink of the inevitable. Yes, we, to whom the Common Agricultural Policy is so important, must stand on the brink of the inevitable, of transparency.
It is a big problem for the Common Agricultural Policy – and I agree wholeheartedly with Mr Graefe zu Baringdorf – that the whole European Common Agricultural Policy is a tangled mess, hardly transparent and, in many respects, unfair. Both of us, and, I think, those sitting in this chamber, would like to safeguard the future of the Common Agricultural Policy, but at the same time we would like to protect it.
My dear friends, what does it tell us when the Common Agricultural Policy has its favourite, spoiled children, such as the cereals, sugar and tobacco sectors, and that it has hostile sectors, such as the fruit and vegetables, grapes and wine, pork and poultry sectors? Nobody in his right mind could explain this to a European citizen.
Often, nobody in his right mind could explain to a European citizen either that a whole heap of aid does not go to the producers, as Mr Graefe zu Baringdorf said, but is creamed off by commercial organisations. Nowhere has a report yet been produced, and it would be good if the Commission and the Council were finally to prepare a report on the amounts that go out of the agricultural sector. Enormous amounts.
This report is therefore very important for showing clearly who receives aid, and how much, so that it does not come about that the media give the negative example that 200 head of cattle have been on a sixth floor in Rome for years, while several hundred thousand Italian peasants are going honestly about their business.
My dear friends, transparency and data processing are therefore very important, and the European Union has to do this in other areas, so I support the report by Mr Chatzimarkakis. Thank you very much."@en1
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