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"I am pleased that the submitted report draws attention to the relationship between two European policies that appear totally different at first sight – the development policy and the agricultural policy. The huge subsidies provided to food manufacturers in the European Union contribute significantly to food shortages and a lack of jobs in the agricultural sector in the developing countries of Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. Something is definitely out of order if you pay five times less in The Gambia for milk from Holland than for milk from a local producer and Dutch potatoes cost a quarter of the price for which this product can be delivered to the market by a Gambian farmer. These price variations do not result from a higher productivity of Dutch producers, but from the European subsidy policy. First, we contribute from our taxes to enable our producers to squeeze out local producers from markets in the developing countries, and then we provide handouts to these countries in the form of the development aid. As a result, we pay twice and people in The Gambia feel that their efforts are useless. Somewhere here, there is a way to provide quick and effective aid to developing countries."@en1
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