Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-02-10-Speech-1-118"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-02-10"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:WTO agricultural trade negotiations2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030210.9.1-118"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-02-10-Speech-1-1192
lpv:speaker	lp:Alexandros Baltas2
lpv:spokenAs	member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Panellinio Socialistiko Kinima (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Hungary Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-03-07--2004-04-30)3 substitute; AGRI (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, the motto we need to adopt for negotiating our agricultural policy at the WTO is: ‘More empty words? No, thank you. Specific proposals? Yes, please’. And the proposals and the timetable for applying them are nothing if not specific. The overall package being contributed to the forthcoming WTO negotiations by the European Union puts the ball very firmly in the European Union’s court. Rather than just tabling proposals, it needs to make a studied demand for something in return. We need to know, for example, what the other developed countries are going to do and which parts of the system of protection for European Union farmers need to be safeguarded. While we are on the subject of protecting our farmers, and I mean the farmers of the 25 Member States of the European Union, not just the 15, we need first for the multifunctionality model of European agriculture to be recognised and protected. Secondly, the review of the common agricultural policy – and the Socialists’ agree with the general philosophy here – must not pay the price for any misplaced commitments undertaken at the negotiations. Thirdly, as far as the environmental dimension of rural development, striking an ecological balance, food standards and so on are concerned, the European Union must lobby for a common clause for all countries based on its standards. It is both pointless and unacceptable to make it easier to import agricultural produce from developing countries which do not meet European standards. Finally, we are not doing poor countries and their farmers any favours if we manage to increase farmers’ incomes in poor countries, merely so that the developed countries can sell them extortionately expensive AIDS drugs, for example. In other words, what we need at the negotiations are not just impressive proposals of good intent; we need to juxtapose them with social benefits, we need a certain type of negotiation which serves broader social interests."@en1

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