Danish member of the European Parliament for the Liberals (V), Jens Rohde, now criticises Foreign Secretary Lene Espersen for suggesting an abolishment of farm subsidies in the European Union. Always a hot and difficult topic to tackle, because the European Union was initiated and based on trading coal and steel, and later primarily farmed products and it has a large farming lobby.
In particular, he finds the statement and the signals it sends to the European countries troublesome up to the Danish chairmanship to begin in 2012. Now adding to the critique of Foreign Secretary Espersen for her cancellation of an important Arctic forum with US Foreign Secretary Clinton in Canada end of March. Lene Espersen has responded by stressing the importance of a more market oriented economy in this area and in general.
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