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"I voted in favour of Mr Papastamkos’s report on EU agriculture and international trade. In particular, I wanted to support the desire of the European Parliament to emphasise strongly the dangers that the European Commission’s trade strategy presents to agriculture in the European Union.
While several negotiations on trade agreements are in progress between the Union and some of its partners (Mercosur, Canada, Ukraine, and so on), it is up to us to remind the European Commission of the need to establish trade partnerships – with realism but without naivety – which are based on the principles of free trade, of course, but also on the principle of reciprocity – both in relation to respect for health and social rules and in relation to rules for protecting consumers, the environment and animals – and which do not endanger certain European spheres of activity. I am thinking, in particular, of the agricultural sector, which is too often ‘sacrificed’ in favour of industrial products and services during trade negotiations.
With this aim in mind, the European Union must ensure consistency between its agricultural policy, currently under revision, and its trade policy in order to maintain a strong agricultural sector, thus ensuring the food security of our fellow citizens in a context of increased market volatility."@en1
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