Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-09-05-Speech-1-138"

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dcterms:Date	"2005-09-05"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Air safety2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20050905.21.1-138"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-09-05-Speech-1-1392
lpv:speaker	lp:Georgios Karatzaferis2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-21--2007-09-25)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2007-09-25)3 member; Delegation for relations with Mercosur (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 unknown; Laikos Orthodoxos Synagermos - G. Karatzaferis (2004-07-20--2005-11-23)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2006-12-31)3 member; AFET (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; IND/DEM (2004-07-20--2007-09-25)3
lpv:translated text	". Madam President, Commissioner, I was there half an hour after the aeroplane crashed in Grammatiko. I arrived there very quickly as a journalist and as a private individual. It was a sickening sight. You cannot begin to imagine what we saw. Children cut to pieces, burned, families wiped out; one family lost five people. I shall convey your condolences; but are your condolences enough? Will the families, some of whom are close friends, tell me what the European Union did to prevent the accident? What controls you carry out? Why did you not do what you say you are going to do now about black lists last year or the year before or six months ago? Did we need to mourn 121 people at the heart of Europe in order to realise? Do you not know that there are 'Mickey Mouse' airlines in Europe? Do you not know the conditions under which charter flights operate? Do you not know that Turkey violates Athens FIR with fighter planes and that you are in constant danger when you fly down there? Do you not know all that? All this, and yet you are closing down national airlines. People trust in Al Italia, in Lufthansa, in the big companies. Now you are closing down Olympic Airways because, apparently, the Greek state is financing it and there is no competition with these 'Mickey Mouse' companies. We have got a thousand islands, many of which have airports. Who will fly there in winter? What planes will fly there? You are not going to finance the planes that fly down there to people cut off from the capital. We finance them and it is precisely because we help Olympic Airways that you are closing down the company and directing us to companies with a brief to kill even more people. This is the philosophy which prevails in the European Union. We want answers here. We want safe flights at long last. You said that you sent experts. Did you send a flight safety expert? No one visited the scene of the accident. You said they went to Cyprus. No one came and those who did, your people under your supervision, told us they hardly know a thing about Pipers or Cessnas. So who are the specialists? Let us tell the truth in here. We are here to protect the citizens of Europe from harm, not to come along afterwards for memorials. That is a crime against the people."@en1

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