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"This agreement best encapsulates the catastrophic and self-harming trade policy of the European Union. By adopting it today, we will see a real invasion of Moroccan agricultural products which will risk inflicting the definitive
on many of our excellent fruits and vegetables. It is not at all possible to compete with a country such as Morocco where the cost of labour is significantly lower and which even often uses child labour.
I wonder what benefit there could be for the European Union from this agreement: only the major agricultural multinationals which have already relocated or will shortly do so will benefit from it. I do not believe that there will be significant advantages for simple Moroccan farmers, nor less for the thousands of small and medium-sized farmers from the countries of southern Europe, for whom, by contrast, the consequences would be devastating.
I voted against this motion but unfortunately, today as well, the usual European commercial interests have prevailed. I do not dare imagine where we will end up at this rate: certainly the adoption of this agreement amounts to a defeat for European farmers and fishermen, and someone, sooner or later, will have to accept responsibility for this."@en1
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