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"en.20161003.15.1-129-000"2
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"Mr President, the Commission may well promote itself as a champion in the field of enhancing nutrition and food security. However, it is clear that tens of millions of taxpayers’ money will again be misused and channelled to the wrong projects with no tracking or real control whatsoever. Besides that, there is the danger that the EU is influencing the political agenda in the governments concerned, causing more instability.
However, there is another point that I would like to make. On the one hand, the EU promotes itself as a champion of development, providing poor countries with aid and assistance to deal with food security and food shortages. But, on the other hand, the EU is undermining food security in many parts of the world. Taxpayers in the EU are forced to bear the cost of EU fisheries agreements, which are essentially a tool to allow a few big fishing companies to plunder the waters of poor African coastal nations.
People of poor coastal communities rely on fish as an affordable source of protein. Fish is their main source of food and they need it to survive, but we are stealing it from them. The plundering of these fish stocks has led to serious protein deficiencies within these communities. It is threatening food security and causing malnutrition. We can only hope that when we leave the EU, which we will do shortly, we can then promote true food security and sustainability."@en1
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