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Ilves: European Union must restore internal solidarity and equal treatment
Juhan Tere, BC, Tallinn, 27.10.2011.
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Print versionEstonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves said, while on a working visit to Denmark, that today’s system of direct aid is not sustainable in the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union and distorts competition inside the EU, as the direct aid levels differ by up to six times between the member states, the president’s chancellery reported.
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“This is far from solidarity and equal treatment, which the European Union should internally rely upon; these principles have been abandoned in the Common Agricultural Policy,” criticised the Estonian head of state.
“The European Commission’s current proposal to diminish the current differences in the direct aid system is far too modest. This won’t satisfy Estonia,” told President Ilves, who met in Copenhagen with the Prime Minister of Denmark, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, and the Secretary General of the Nordic Council, Halldór Ásgrímsson.
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