27
Nov
2024
Topical debate (Rule 169) - Budapest Declaration on the New European Competitiveness Deal - A future for the farming and manufacturing sectors in the EU (topical debate)
Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the future of agriculture in the European Union is very bleak. Small farms are rapidly disappearing and large businesses are being hampered. Villages are disappearing. The European Union is dominated by transnational trading chains, which benefit from importing agricultural commodities halfway around the globe, at dumped prices and of dubious origin. Buy-in pric…