Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-03-11-Speech-2-037"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-03-11"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Commission policy strategy for 2004/2004 budget guidelines2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030311.3.2-037"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-03-11-Speech-2-0382
lpv:speaker	lp:Ioannis Patakis2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with the countries of south-east Europe (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; EUL/NGL (2001-01-30--2004-07-19)3 member; ECON (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Kommounistiko Komma Elladas (2001-01-30--2004-07-19)3 substitute; AGRI (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the war about to be waged in Iraq in the interests of American imperialism and its allies, is not just an inhumane war; it will have a huge impact on the economy of the European Union and will palpably reduce working class incomes and the revenue of the European Union. The accession of the new Member States, whose GDP is below the Community average and whose needs are greater, will also cause severe problems. The European Union 2004 budget guidelines are all about cutting spending on the structural funds and the common agricultural policy and funding the repressive, aggressive common European defence and security policy, using the fight against terrorism and immigration, crisis management and conflict prevention as an excuse. In other words, agricultural spending is to be slashed in line with the WTO approach and under pressure from the USA, and this will be compounded by mandatory restructuring and an anti-farming slant to the partial reform of the CAP. All this does is to prove that the budget is still an anti-grass roots budget and that the sacrifices imposed on the workers in the interests of the monopolies are continuing, in the Lisbon vein now, with increased exploitation, attacks on workers’ employment and insurance rights, galloping unemployment, environmental disasters and even greater commercialisation of health, education and social services. The workers, the poor and lower middle classes of urban and rural society, are again being called on to pick up the bill for the recession, so that big business can keep raking in the profits. The MEPs of the Communist Party of Greece are opposed to these budget guidelines because, instead of resolving the problems of workers, farmers and small enterprises, they will create new ones and the standard of living of people in the candidate countries will fall. Instead of helping to maintain peace, the budget is being used to fund more militarisation and aggression on the part of the European Union and its anti-democratic, anti-grass roots philosophy."@en1

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