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"en.20130205.13.2-138-000"2
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"Mr President, what is the single best thing that we could do to help poor people in developing countries? It is plainly not aid. We have tried that option, and the countries which have received the largest handouts have been the slowest in their economic and democratic development. It is not debt remission either. The countries that have been the biggest beneficiaries are the quickest to become reindebted.
The single best thing we could do is to abolish the common agricultural policy which penalises them twice over: firstly, by closing European markets to what is overwhelmingly their best export product; secondly, by dumping our surpluses uncompetitively on Third World markets.
Here is the best bit: scrapping the common agricultural policy would not cost us a penny. On the contrary, it would make us better off as taxpayers, because we would not be subsidising the production of food for which there is no market. It would also make us better off as consumers because we would not be paying artificially-inflated food bills. In other words, the best way to help poor people in poor countries has the delicious bonus of helping poor people in Europe. And rather than do that, we are standing up for the vested interests of the EU machine. Shame on us."@en1
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