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"Mr President, Commissioner, Mr Goepel, in Berlin – nearly 10 years ago now – Chancellor Schmidt and the French President Jacques Chirac decided to grant a reprieve to farmers until 2013. With the end of milk quotas, the end of a proper agricultural budget as part of the 2014-2019 financial framework, and the retirement of the majority of producers, not to be replaced, the end of the great CAP was planned for 2013 – it was as simple as that.
Today you are questioning this agreement, and in the name of the ‘CAP Health Check’ you are accelerating the march towards the elimination of agriculture within the first pillar. This is nothing new! By dint of quotas, MGQs, Herod premiums, set-aside, decoupling and grubbing up, MacSharry, Steichen, Fischler had practised this strategy of leaving the monopoly on food production to the southern hemisphere and the Pacific countries for 30 years.
Today, in the gripping technical debates on full decoupling, modulation – whether degressive or progressive – eco-conditionality, rural development, and reference values – whether historical or non-historical – simply hide the only real issue, as China and India are about to launch a call for bids to feed the planet, as the morning comes for farmers when there is a rise in prices and demand. Does Europe still want to be one of the world’s great farms, together with Brazil? Yes or no?"@en1
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