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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we have revived an old debate. As much as I love bacon from South Tyrol, I have to say that bacon from the Kiskunság region of Hungary is also excellent. It would be most welcome if this debate did not serve the purpose of closing the gates of trade to each other, too. This debate, by the way, is redundant in a certain sense, because we have already had the same discussion in connection with quality policy. Let us also not forget the fact that the European Union is the world’s second largest exporter and largest importer of agricultural goods. Mr Dorfmann pointed out that local markets, local trade, and local processing have their own limitations. I, too, support them because they create jobs in agricultural regions and reduce transportation costs, but we should not delude ourselves.
It would be welcome if we could finally calculate in this House what it is that determines the actual environmental footprint of an agricultural product, because using large amounts of energy in greenhouses in the colder climate of Hungary does not necessarily have a smaller ecological footprint in vegetable production than if we were to import these goods from other continents, even if we include shipping costs. Let us renounce economic protectionism; we should support local production, but we can by no means stop global trade."@en1
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