Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-09-05-Speech-3-330"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-09-05"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Question Time (Council)2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010905.9.3-330"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-09-05-Speech-3-3312
lpv:speaker	lp:Ioannis Marinos2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; PETI (2000-09-04--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Cyprus Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 member; ECON (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Nea Dimokratia (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"I thank the Minister for her general reply, but my question was specifically about Greece. I wanted to say that the statistics in my question were compiled a long time before her answer and that things are changing for the better. However, according to the latest EUROSTAT figures, there is a growing fear that a lot of people will use this opportunity to increase the prices of goods and services and that this will mainly hit the most vulnerable groups of consumers such as the elderly, the young, the poorly educated, immigrants and the mentally handicapped. Especially as, in Greece at least, 1 euro is worth 340.75 drachmas, meaning that it is very hard to make the sort of quick calculation needed every hour of every day. That is why I want to know if, even at the eleventh hour, the Council is giving any thought to the easiest solution all round, i.e. for each Member State to order and distribute cheap pocket calculators which convert each country’s currency into euros, so that even the most poorly informed or disabled citizen can immediately calculate what they are paying, what they are being paid and who is trying to rob them."@en1

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