Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-09-27-Speech-2-159"
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"Mr President, I wish to refer to the report by Mr Marques, whom I warmly congratulate on the work he has done.
I refer to the particularly remote island areas which we also have a duty to support and not to abandon. To exaggerate somewhat, and this goes slightly beyond the boundaries of the issue, I would say that we have a duty to support every resident of the European Union living in difficult areas under difficult living conditions.
In my country, in Greece, many people live in island areas, which may not be particularly remote but where living conditions are difficult and the people there often remain totally cut off for fairly long periods of time, especially in winter.
The European Union is the country of solidarity. All its citizens have the right to education for their children, job security, a healthy life, healthcare, recreation and everything that urban residents can enjoy. If we abandon the people in remote regions and they are forced to leave their villages, no one else will ever go to live there, resulting in ecological deterioration, devastation and destruction. These people are doing us a favour by living there. We need to give them solace.
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The region is the foundation of Europe. If we start to abandon these people to their fate without a second thought, then the destruction of the European Union will come about. They are doing us a favour by living there under these difficult conditions and we must return the favour."@en1
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"We owe it to them"1
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