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"My initial comment on the new agricultural policy announced by Commissioner Fischler on 10 July 2002 was: ‘An appropriate break with the past, but not a solution for the victims by a long chalk’. The reform was announced as a reward for quality and food safety, aimed at better protection of the consumer and the environment. Maintaining and improving the countryside would be less dependent on chasing after ever more intensive production. My party, the Dutch Socialist Party, has always striven to achieve just such a reversal. Agricultural organisations and farmers’ representatives in the European Parliament were furious. This is understandable, as there is unfortunately a major risk of more large groups of farmers going out of business. Not only the small farmers in France, Spain and Greece, but even the bigger farmers in the Netherlands, who are currently highly dependent on the money they have borrowed from the banks. Compared with the amount of work and money they have invested, their income is disappointing, and that income may drop even further for some. Farmers can only get socio-economic security if we have the courage to break away from the logic of the free market and instead are rewarded for countryside management, environmental protection and healthy food. Otherwise there will still be pressure to supply food even more cheaply than the Americans and other competitors outside the EU by further intensification, further exploitation of the soil and export subsidies."@en1
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