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EU agrees EUR 1bn for farmers in poor countries

23 November 2008, 14:41 CET
EU agrees EUR 1bn for farmers in poor countries

Woerth - Grybauskaite - Photo EU Presidency

(BRUSSELS) - EU nations agreed on Friday to release one billion euros (1.25 billion dollars) over three years to farmers in poor countries, diplomats said.

The funds, which EU budget ministers agreed at a meeting in Brussels, are supposed to help farmers in developing countries lift their production by buying seeds and fertiliser.

The money will be released in three phases up to 2010 with an instalment of 270 million euros due already for this year.

Under an original proposal, the funds were to come from unspent money in the EU's farm subsidy programme, but Germany and several other countries were opposed to the idea of using the budget's surpluses for a programme outside the bloc.

As a result, ministers had to scrape up financing from the budgets for external operations, an emergency aid reserve and another fund that sets aside cash for unforeseen needs.

Results of the ECOFIN Council - Budget - of 21 November

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Poor Countries

Posted by Julius Imoimion AKHIMIEN at 22 November 2008, 16:30 CET
ItÅ› quiet obvious to those who can reason wisely, that the food you eat comes from poor countries, especially Africa countries and if you think the poor countries are not playing an important role in your countries by sleeping stress, confusion and pains to reward their citizen in 18months detention, while should you release such hurge about of EUROS to support your agricultural system in your countries. And "IF YOU HAVE TO SAY THANK YOU TO THAT PERSON WHO PREPARE YOUR MEAL, REMEMBER TO APPRECIATE THOSE LABORERS WHO LABOR HARD TO ENSURE GOOD HARVEST, AND ALSO LEARN TO VALUE THEIR CITIZEN". At this point, i may say that "POORER COUNTRIES ARE LIKE A DOCTOR WHO CURE YOUR SICKNESS". The most terrible sickness people never take to be anything is AGRICULTURAL SICKNESS, remember no food no life.Poor countries should be accepted in your countries, having the same equal opportunity to spend vacation in any of your countries who consume their agricultural products. This is the time to unite in love and peace, because a time may come in the nearest future when no poor countries will accept what you have due to racist system of administration against the poor countries.

Poor countries...

Posted by Demir Arabaci at 23 November 2008, 06:42 CET

Talking about the poor countries what the hell is india doing buying a russian atomic submarine or even sending a rocket to the moon while 750 million of it's citizens get only one meal a day - mostly boiled rice and can't even afford a pair of cheap nylon sandals so they walk barefeet all their lives among the billions of rats scurrying in the streets.
Talk about sheer vanity bordering stupidity.
I suppose pakistan will also want to send a rocket and a monkey to the moon soon.
Birds of a feather...

I am also surprised!

Posted by Julius Imoimion AKHIMIEN at 26 November 2008, 00:21 CET
Why most leaders are so heartless, to improve the living standard of their citizen?.

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Posted by Stoyan Antonov at 25 November 2008, 01:15 CET
i do think EU should firast provide for its poor people, who lose jobs, social coverage, and more. the food prices skyrocketed because of the war in Iraq mostly, and EU has nothing to do with that; i want also to remind some person in this forum that before several months black south africans with bla rounded up and beat and burnt and even killed black immigrants african states neighbouring to south africa. even USA channels reflected on that.
Hillary Rodham Clinton will faithfully continue to guard israel and israeli interests in the middle east and in USa and in EU. I expect tougher language with arabs, strong pressure on EU for more funds to middle east and afghanistan, and of course, more push to admit turkey to EU. Before many years, when saddam Hussein assended to power in Irak, he nationalized iraqi oil industry ( some "globalist" oil companies lost much money). and at that point neighbouring turkey was ordered to invade Iraq and bring downt Saddam, this idea, however, met stiff resistance in the former warsaw pact which warned turks not to do so. Actually what happened in Iraq with saddam also hit the Chilean president salvadore Aliende, who nationalized rich copper mines and the country's banks. general Pinochet was guided, once again, from banking interst groups, that lost iraqi oil business for some time. The same scenario was attempted in Venezuela,as hugo sanches toppled Standard oil/Exxon Mobile from national oil fields. the losers tried Chilean scenario, however sanches has had many friends in the military and they remained loyal to constitution. what is in common between Iraq, Chile and Venezuela- they are rich on natural resources and banking groups are fighting to preserve their really huge earnings while national/social movements are trying to spread the benefits among as many nationals as possible

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Posted by Demir Arabaci at 25 November 2008, 04:32 CET
hey borimecccka
what kind of dogshit have you been smoking?

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Posted by Stoyan Antonov at 29 November 2008, 17:57 CET
actually most of so called "dogshit" come to EU from turkey
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