Seanad debates
Wednesday, 2 July 2003
Common Agricultural Policy: Statements.
10:30 am
James Bannon (Fine Gael)
The overwhelming feeling of many in the European farming community is that Commissioner Fishler's Common Agricultural Policy proposals foster a state of uncertainty and a distortion of competition among farmers, among and within sectors and among regions and member states. Subsidies are said simply to have been repackaged and farmers are being asked once again to pay the price while their livelihoods are on the line.
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