Seanad debates

Wednesday, 6 November 2002

Agriculture and Food: Statements.

 

I regard enlargement as an opportunity for us on several fronts. Facing into the serious challenges of the WTO round and the shaping of the new Common Agricultural Policy, we now at last will have allies who speak the same language as we do. Rather than having to rely on the French to buttress us, or perhaps at times the Mediterranean countries who have different interests, we will now have a large bloc of people within the European political establishment who understand and sympathise with the arguments we have been making over the years. That is a significant advantage.

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