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"Mr President, Commissioner, we oppose and will vote against this agreement, which will bring agricultural products onto the European market at a lower cost of production than in Europe.
Italian farmers, and southern Italian farmers should know that we are voting against it. We are announcing our intention to all the farmers growing tomatoes, fruit and vegetables, citrus fruits, grapes, peaches and cherries, who risk being not just threatened but beaten by the entry onto the market of products from Morocco, where there are no assurances regarding environmental quality standards, the fertilisers used and social standards such as welfare and salary guarantees for farm workers.
Furthermore, these products from Morocco would enter our market with minimal duty or even without duty, while our oil and meat would be subject to duty. Well, we are absolutely against this. In southern Italy we are witnessing farm bankruptcies, job losses and the abandonment of land. This agreement risks making the process even worse, while we want to stop it.
We are moving – and I am concluding, Mr President – from support for the Arab Spring to the start of the European Winter for our farmers. We cannot allow this to happen."@en1
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