Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-04-08-Speech-2-064"
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"This agreement, like so many others of its kind, illustrates the way that the European Union wraps up its policy of pillaging the resources of developing-world countries in hypocritical observations. It is clear that this is the case when a tiny, poor, remote country in the Pacific Ocean, entirely dependent on tuna-fishing, is asked to agree not to the fact that it will be exploited but to the conditions of its exploitation.
Not content to help the ship owners – and, next in line, the major agrifoods companies which market tuna – to obtain fishing rights, the European Union has found the means to subsidise two thirds of the meagre royalties which these companies have to pay to the Republic of Kiribati.
What this report reveals of the conditions of what must be called pure and simple pillaging can only provoke disgust. If we abstain, instead of voting against this report, it is only because we would not want to risk blocking the few clauses which it contains which could provide some resources for the Kiribati population."@en1
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