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Tuesday warned his EU partners against keeping privileges while providing
more
funds for newcomers to the 15-nation bloc.
Solidarity "must not imply that old (members) keep their privileges and
that money is being added for newcomers," said Schroeder after talks with
his
Polish counterpart Leszek Miller in this southwestern Polish city.
"This would be impossible to finance," he added.
Schroeder on Sunday rejected a European Commission proposal to provide
direct aid to farmers in central and eastern European countries as soon as
they join the European Union, saying Germany could not afford to fund such a
scheme.
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Denmark, June 19 - Poland must be realistic and accept an
EU proposal that will see candidate countries receive less aid to
farmers than the current 15 members, Denmark's agriculture minister
said Wednesday.
Poland is among the most vocal of 10 candidate countries to
object to plans that farmers in countries joining the EU be given
aid of just 25 percent of what farmers in current EU members receive
in the first year after joining.
The plan forsees aid rising to the same level over 10 years.
"It's difficult to imagine aid that is higher than the proposed
25 percent," said the Danish agriculture minister, Mariann Fischer
Boel, whose country takes over the rotating EU presidency next
month.
"Poland must be realistic," she added.
But the Polish agriculture minister, Jaroslaw Kalinowski said:
"Enlargement must be honest."
It is "unimaginable that there will not be direct aid for Polish
farmers," he said.
Fischer Boel said that Poland should look to getting finance
from other EU institutions.
She said that once Poland becomes a member of the European
Union, as it aims to do by 2004, it will "participate in
negotiations on the new Common Agricultural Policy beginning in
2006."
EU ministers have failed to agree upon a common approach to
direct farm aid for candidate countries, threatening to stall EU
enlargement talks set to be wrapped up by December.
Fischer Boel said she would invite all EU member and candidate
country agriculture ministers to an informal meeting to discuss the
issue on September 9 and 10.
In addition to Poland, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia,
Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Slovakia and Slovenia are set to
close membership talks this year.
SEVILLE, Spain, June 19 - European leaders will decide at this week's
EU summit whether to delay a special EU summit, which will focus on the
final
negotiations on EU enlargement, until November, EU sources said Wednesday.
This gathering of EU leaders has been scheduled for October 24 and 25 in
Brussels.
But according to sources, with Germany only going to the polls on
September
22, it may be too soon for the summit in October.
Another option to be discussed at Seville would be holding two summits,
one
in October and another in November.
The pressure to delay enlargement negotiations follows recent comments by
Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder that his country would be unable to finance
agricultural aid to future members of the EU.
The European Commission -- the EU's executive arm -- has proposed that
farmers in countries joining the EU be given direct payments amounting
initially to just 25 percent of what farmers in current EU members receive,
rising to 100 percent over 10 years.
But Britain, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden have rejected the plan.
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Mr. Kocaoglu , a Represantative of TUSIAD in EU , and Istanbul MP of
Motherland Party , has said in Turkish Television that Turkey expects to
receive in excess of 40 billion.Euros in direct farm subsidies from EU as
compared to her contribution of 3.4 billion Euro / year . These figures
are based Turkey's GDP of 2001. ( 204 b. US $ ) Mr. Kocaoglu said that ,
EU promises to provide to Turkey 12 times the amount contributed by her and
of that 80 % will be on Agricultural Industries.
Turkey has not yet been given a date for the start of the talks for
accession to EU. But has already passed changes to National Farming and
Agricultural Laws , within the guide lines imposed by the European Union.
According to these changes the production of , wheat, tabacco, sugar and
cotton will be regulated to be within the quotas allowed by the Brussel
Administration
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