Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-06-12-Speech-2-043"
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"Mr President, Commissioner, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, dioxin, foot-and-mouth disease, these are scourges which have fallen upon Europe, each one following so closely upon the heels of the previous one that they have caused panic among consumers in Member States. The negligence of certain Member States has encouraged, if not aggravated, the impact of these disasters. How can we oppose the creation of a European food agency in the face of the growing concern on the part of consumers, a concern which is exacerbated by the sensation-seeking attitude of the media?
However, this proposal for such an agency is already talking about a Food Authority, and that is where I start to have misgivings. Will it be yet another European technocratic unit? Will this authority prevail over the national food safety agencies, with the tendency to sprawl all over the place, which is what usually happens in such cases, or will it operate only as a coordinator, which is what I hope it will do, leaving it to the Member States to manage their own food safety?
In this respect, it would be too easy to dismiss the Irish vote, because it is a sign of the aspirations of the people of Europe, and we must not forget that Europe, if it is to survive, must be constructed only with the assent of those people."@en1
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