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"Mr President, we are debating an important report concerning the financing of the common agricultural policy. A policy to which we devote some 45% of the EU budget.
The European Commission’s proposal is aimed at increasing the transparency and credibility of expenditure for EU farmers and rural areas. By the same token it is supposed to improve the way the policy is accepted and assessed by EU citizens. But people keep on popping up who are not well disposed towards the common agricultural policy, people who wish to deprive our farmers of support at any cost and expose them to open and unequal competition with farmers from third countries.
The question is − what would then happen to food security in the EU? I am sure that MEPs from the Committee on Agriculture will share my view that no cuts can be made in the envisaged budget for the common agricultural policy. This budget is steadily shrinking, and in 2013 it will constitute only 33% of total budget expenditure. Let us hope that the new rules will help to simplify legislation in line with the slogan of ‘
promoted by the Commission. Our citizens will be able to check and find out for what purposes we are handing out EU money.
In November of this year the Commission is to present a communication on the matter of a
. I am of the opinion that the EU direct payments system should be very much simpler and also transparent, and that the level of subsidies should be standardised for all Member States, in other words be fair and understandable.
I also hope that our colleagues from Romania are coping with the current problems connected with their payment systems. We cannot allow Romanian farmers to be harmed and punished by a drop in subsidies. They are just as necessary in Romania as in other Member States. Instead of punishing Romanian farmers, we should be helping to sort out the system of subsidies."@en1
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