Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-11-20-Speech-4-117"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-11-20"^^xsd:date2
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dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20031120.4.4-117"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-11-20-Speech-4-1182
lpv:speaker	lp:Patricia McKENNA2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, my Group voted against this report because we feel that this issue has been pushed and promoted by the arms industry. The rapporteur took offence at my saying this, but in reality you only have to look at the report and the conclusions of the Thessaloniki summit to see that it is clearly the arms industry in Europe who is setting the agenda and that everyone else is following. This is all about creating a European arms industry that can compete at an international level. It is about channelling our precious resources for research into producing weapons that are going to cause conflict in other parts of the world. The European Union space policy, for example, is heavily oriented towards security and defence applications such as signals. It is quite clear right down the line, that this is basically about promoting and supporting the arms industry. The CEO of the second largest aerospace and defence company in the world EADS has actually bemoaned the fact that the US already invests six times more than Europe in armaments research and that while the research budgets in the US continue to rise, those in Europe stagnate. That is something to be welcomed rather than criticised. We should be channelling our resources into something of greater benefit to mankind. He goes on to say that our defence industry is already at a serious competitive disadvantage, but the time has come for that industry to realise that it should move away from producing weapons that cause havoc around the world and start to produce something that will contribute to the betterment of society rather than to its destruction. Anyone who challenges my claim that this is basically aimed at the vested interests of the arms industry only has to look at what we voted on today and what the Council decided. There is absolutely no argument here. It is quite clear that this is at the behest of the arms industry. It is also quite clear from the rapporteur's report that this is the case. It is unacceptable. We believe that this is an incorrect use of resources."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"McKenna (Verts/ALE )."1

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