Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-11-18-Speech-2-079"
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"I should first like to commend the remarkable work carried out by our rapporteur, Mr Capoulas Santos, who has continually sought to find a balanced and stable compromise to enable the European Parliament to speak with one voice in the face of a divided and uncertain Council.
The health check we will be voting on today represents an extraordinary opportunity to substantially reflect on how we can free the common agricultural policy (CAP) from the dissatisfaction undermining it and to look ahead to the huge amount of work to reform this policy, planned for after 2013.
The CAP undeniably needs a breath of fresh air, and particularly in social and environmental terms. In this regard, I am delighted that we have managed to amend the European Commission’s text in the direction of increased social sensitivity, by proposing, in particular, an increase in aid for small farmers and the introduction of ‘work’ and ‘employment’ factors in the rules for allocating aid. I am sorry, however, and it is the only reservation I will mention, that the economic and social criteria are not accompanied more by ecological considerations, since ‘sustainability’ must become the hallmark of our agricultural policy."@en1
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