Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-02-10-Speech-2-141"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-02-10"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Agricultural incomes in the EU (continuation)2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040210.6.2-141"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-02-10-Speech-2-1422
lpv:speaker	lp:Peder Wachtmeister2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Poland Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-10-24--2004-04-30)3 member; EPP-ED (2002-10-23--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-10-24--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Temporary committee on improving safety at sea (2003-11-20--2004-04-21)3 unknown; Moderata samlingspartiet (2002-10-23--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport (2002-10-23--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, a sincere thank-you to Mr Garot for a constructive report that is very good at depicting today’s agricultural economy. Agricultural economics is a very important subject for the development of thriving rural areas. Thriving rural areas are entirely dependent upon the existence of profitable farms. In a Europe in which 50% of farmers are over 55 years of age and only eight per cent under 35, a whole new attitude to agriculture’s entrepreneurs is required. If I were now asked to give advice to people who had recently started up a farm, I would reply that they should make their financial calculations without reference to funding by society and not rely upon the good will of politicians. The report contains a number of points I cannot support. For example, it talks about ensuring ‘a fair standard of living for the agricultural community and stabilis[ing] incomes with a view to maintaining farming activity throughout the European Union’. A second point emphasises the importance of ‘maintain[ing] the level of public support for agriculture’ and the significance of creating ‘conditions that will guarantee employment’ and so forth. If these sentences, worded as they are, were read out to today’s farmers, they would leave them cold. In a country like Sweden, these words do not correspond to reality. Only 0.5 per cent of the population are now farmers. Restructuring is taking place incredibly quickly. The mid-term review has meant that everything has stopped, apart from the running down of agriculture. That is not of course something that can be blamed solely upon the European Community. A lot of the blame lies, for example, with the Swedish Government."@en1

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