Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-03-09-Speech-2-396"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-03-09"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Agriculture2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040309.14.2-396"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-03-09-Speech-2-3972
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 order being given by the European Commission with the proposal for a regulation on Mediterranean products, despite efforts to embellish and enhance the situation, is categorical and depressing: the disappearance of tobacco crops, a reduction in cotton crops and the abolition of olive crops. Unfortunately, the report by the European Parliament, apart from a few improvements to the letter, has also been drafted entirely in the spirit of the Commission proposal, which should hardly even constitute the basis for debate in the European Parliament. It should have been and it should be rejected in its entirety, because it is far worse than the current situation. The gradual decoupling of subsidies from agricultural production and their conversion to Community charity completely subjugates small- and medium-sized farmers to the interests of big business and the food industry multinationals, which will also make full use of the WTO agreements to buy agricultural products at knock-down prices. It is crystal clear that small- and medium-sized farmers will receive far less money in compensation for the abolition of basic crops such as tobacco, cotton and oil. A large proportion of subsidies will shift to the second pillar, with the basic recipients being big business, in which small- and medium-sized farmers will earn some sort of daily wage as service personnel. All this relates to products in most of which the European Union has an acute deficit and which it imports in massive quantities. All this is happening without any social, development or environmental criteria, with complete indifference to the painful consequences which it will have not only for the agricultural sector, but also for the economy connected to it in areas with acute social and economic problems. For us, these proposals do not admit of any amendment or embellishment. We are calling for them to be voted out and withdrawn. For us, there is no question of partial, comparatively partial or complete decoupling, or of a comparative or superlative degree of extermination of small- and medium-sized agriculture in the South. That is why, if they are not withdrawn, they will come up against the fighting ..."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(The President cut off the speaker)"1

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