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"Madam President, I welcome this debate this morning but the reality is, of course, that no government, no politician and certainly no Commissioner is all powerful, that we can solve the problem all on our own.
We had a debate last night in the Parliament and in the committee, and I have to say I found it one of the most pessimistic debates I have ever sat through. I listened to the experts and I listened to the Commissioner. There was only one real truth and that was by the Deputy Director—General, Mr Korte, who said the situation was not good, and there was no need to beat about the bush. That is what your own Deputy Director—General said last night, Mr Commissioner.
Now I have to say to you, we have to recognise some realities here. It has been mentioned this morning, if you have an increase this year of an extra 6% or 7% of milk, a market has to be found for that. The producers in the Member States who are producing this milk need to be aware that they are continuing to stoke the fire, and that they are continuing to make the problem worse not better, and certainly voluntary cutbacks will not work. And let us be honest, some Member States are positively going out encouraging their farmers to produce more milk regardless – they are going for market share. There is only one way that this can be resolved, which is that a lot of good farmers and family farms are going to hit the wall.
There is a big difference between producers and processors, and there are processors in serious difficulty as well. We have a situation where the retailers, Mr Commissioner, are getting away on a coach. They are laughing all the way to the bank at the cost of the producer, of the farmer and the sweat of his brow in the production of that milk. What we need is to sit down and to get some new ideas on the table. We are not going to go forward and it is not good enough, Mr Commissioner, in the depth of this crisis to blame producers; it is not good enough.
I remember the reform coming forward from the old Commission. I remember Commissioner Fischer Boel and I remember we fought her hard when she talked about her soft landing and we asked her where it was going to be. Where is the soft landing today for those who the banks are going to foreclose on, Mr Commissioner? And to the Council I have to say it is time you woke up in Council. You cannot continue to do what you are doing."@en1
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