Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-03-30-Speech-2-049"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-03-30"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Protection of animals2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040330.3.2-049"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-03-30-Speech-2-0502
lpv:speaker	lp:Alexander de Roo2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; GroenLinks (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; AGRI (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Cyprus Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 vice-chair; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-22--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, every day, animals are transported for appallingly long distances across our continent. Dutch pigs spend 30 to 40 hours being transported to Spain and Italy; Irish sheep travel to Greece and even the Middle East. Transport times of 90 hours are not uncommon. That is cruel. Horses from Eastern Europe are taken to Italy and Greece. That should stop, but the Commission has not proposed anything to that effect, and unfortunately, Mr Maat's report does not call an end to appallingly long transports of this kind either. More than one million Dutch pigs travel over the Alps and Pyrenees to Italy and Spain in order to be fattened there. My group, the Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance, wants to put a stop to this. Although Mr Maat has joined 333 MEPs in signing the written declaration to call an end to all animal transports lasting over eight hours, he is now sadly backtracking. This is, regrettably, typical of the Christian Democrats, for whom economic interests take precedence over animal welfare. For my group, precisely the opposite is the case, and a huge number of Dutch people and Europeans are on our side. The discussion in the Council, it has to be said, is even worse. Nobody in the Council is calling a halt to anything anymore. We have to stand firm on our views, give a clear message and not give in at this stage, for otherwise, alas, the Council will make an even worse job of it."@en1

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