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"en.20110308.22.2-373-000"2
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"This is a report full of contradictions. It points out the negative consequences of the liberalisation of trade, but does not oppose the course being taken by policies that are at the root of the main problems for agriculture in EU countries (and also in developing countries). It suggests nothing to change this course. It makes a fair criticism of the Commission’s approach, which places agricultural interests below the interests of industry and the service sector, and which makes concessions on agriculture in order to obtain enhanced market access [in other areas] in third countries. It gives examples of the disastrous consequences of this policy – the case of sugar is a prime example. It acknowledges that greater liberalisation of world trade in agricultural products, increased by World Trade Organisation (WTO) agreements, has not, to date, enabled the threat of hunger in the world to be held at bay. However, it does not condemn or oppose this move towards the increased liberalisation and deregulation of world trade that the EU is promoting, whether within the framework of the WTO or within that of innumerable bilateral agreements.
On the contrary, it defends it. We have been criticising the failure of neoliberal policies for a long time. The report also does so, although in a very patchy and, at times, ambiguous way, only to then support the policy of disaster. We consider this to be unacceptable."@en1
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