(He just wants to subsidize the "global poor". )
That's not what he's saying. In fact, it's the opposite of what he's saying. He's basically pooh poohing the EU's generosity and forgiveness of third world debt and telling them that it means nothing compared to letting the third world compete on a level playing field. Domestic subsidies act as a trade barrier regardless of how one looks at them.
The bottom line is that the third world is struggling to feed itself and stop depending on welfare from rich countries (through donations, forgiveness of debt, etc). The only comparative advantage they have is their low cost of labor in unskilled or low-skilled industries, agriculture being one of them. The first world is sabotaging their only comparative advantage by throwing billions at domestic farmers.
The bottom line, I'd rather have a welfare recipient become independent rather than continue to send him welfare checks. Let's hope we conservatives allow the third world to become self-reliant, in the face of France's hypocricy.
By the way, for those who worry about the quality of third world agricultural products, I am here to tell you that you haven't lived till you have eaten some non-first world fruits. They are more delicious than the best desert, so much so that it will be tough to get back to eating georgeous-looking American fruits that taste like nothing. As a proud American I was horrified when I realized that.
This is precisely because the large agribusiness did not take over and did not "modernize" the agriculture over there. In Poland fruits and other food used to be much better too.