Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-07-03-Speech-3-153"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-07-03"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Combating hunger2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020703.4.3-153"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-07-03-Speech-3-1542
lpv:speaker	lp:Ulla Margrethe Sandbæk2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Development and Cooperation (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2003-03-24)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 substitute; EMPL (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; JuniBevægelsen (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; EDD (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (2002-02-06--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, there are eight hundred million undernourished people in the world today. This is largely the same number as when the first food summit was held in 1996, so let us tell it how it is: the efforts to combat hunger in the world have failed. In this context it is disgraceful to see – as commented on by many Members – the apathy exhibited by the Western Heads of State in their absence from the latest Food Summit in Rome last month. The problems of hunger in the world are largely due to hypocritical policy implemented by the EU and others. The policy, which is officially supposed to be there for the poorest people in the world, is to far too great an extent controlled by the EU’s own narrow foreign and trade policy interests. Officially, the EU and the other Western organisations advocate free trade and liberalisation as the solution to all the world’s problems. However, in reality the liberalisation applies only to the developing countries, where the requirement of liberalisation completely destroys their ability to build up independent sustainable production. Earlier this year Oxfam issued a report that concluded that the EU is the world’s most protectionist market towards the developing countries. It is time that we put our own house in order and grasped the nettle. There is a great deal of work ahead of us if our wish to eradicate hunger is to succeed. As a minimum, to start with we could abolish the EU’s protectionist agricultural subsidy schemes, suspend our fisheries agreements with third countries – which are designed to deprive the very poorest in the world of their living, establish a development policy that is genuinely aimed at combating poverty and not governed by the fight against immigration and terrorism as well as concerns about our own jobs and, last but not least, support the poor countries’ right to their own production and access to water, soil and biological diversity."@en1

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