Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-07-06-Speech-4-190"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2006-07-06"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Results of the WTO meetings at the end of April in Geneva and future perspectives (continuation of debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20060706.30.4-190"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-07-06-Speech-4-1912
lpv:speaker	lp:Robert Sturdy2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I thank the Commissioner, not just for coming here today to listen to the debate, but also for the help I believe he gave to Members of Parliament in Geneva last week. I could not be there, but they did express their thanks for the way he kept them informed. I got the impression from your address, Commissioner – which I thought was quite frank – that, to choose my words carefully – and I could have used stronger words – you were pretty fed up with the way the US was involved in the negotiations. In fact, it would appear that it was pretty intransigent. Although you cannot always believe what you read in the press, according to a press release you had asked the US trade representative, Susan Schwab, what she would be able to offer if the EU were to give the US everything it wanted on market access. Apparently she was unable to answer that. I wonder whether the US has a mandate. When we were in Hong Kong, Rob Portman seemed never to be able to negotiate. Whenever I listened to him, there was a particular problem with West African cotton. Certainly when producers lobbied him in Hong Kong he got very upset and seemed not to be able to make any comment. That was not a big issue for the United States and not a big issue in terms of trade, but it was very important. What is the fallback position if nothing happens in the next month in the negotiations? Where do we go? What is the situation? On a minor point, Mrs Harkin mentioned agriculture. What is the position? There is a huge worry, certainly in the United Kingdom and, I am sure, across Europe about hormone beef coming into the European Union under a trade negotiation with the US. Is there a real risk that might happen, or can we stop it?"@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Committee of Inquiry into the crisis of the Equitable Life Assurance Society (2006-01-19--2007-02-08)3 unknown; Conservative and Unionist Party (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; INTA (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; AGRI (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 substitute; ENVI (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Iran (2004-10-21--2007-03-13)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2004-08-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Robert Sturdy (PPE-DE ). –"1

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