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"In March 2011, after a turbulent process, the Commission signed a trade agreement with Colombia and Peru. Many social forces in these two countries and in Europe were against this agreement. Countries like Bolivia and Ecuador decided to abandon negotiations, accusing the EU of not wanting more than a free trade agreement. In fact, this is true. The consequences – which are profoundly negative – will be felt on both sides of the Atlantic. In the area of bananas, the agreements anticipated losses for European producers. They therefore included a safeguard clause which, as experience has shown us, will not prevent these losses. The opinion of Parliament’s Committee on Agriculture itself recognises this. There are many weaknesses mentioned in this clause. With unacceptable hypocrisy and intolerable cynicism, for a body that, at the end of the day, approved the agreement, it has even proposed, like the Commission, the enlargement of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for these farmers, recognising that they are being condemned to ruin. Portugal, especially the Autonomous Region of Madeira, where banana production is important, will also be affected."@en1
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