Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-09-25-Speech-2-021"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-09-25"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Restructuring of the sugar industry - Common organisation of the markets in the sugar sector (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20070925.4.2-021"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-09-25-Speech-2-0222
lpv:speaker	lp:Diamanto Manolakou2
lpv:spokenAs	member; AGRI (2007-01-31--2008-05-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (2004-07-20--2008-05-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2008-05-19)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2008-05-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees (2004-09-15--2008-05-19)3 unknown; Kommounistiko Komma Elladas (2004-07-20--2008-05-19)3 substitute; ECON (2007-01-31--2008-05-19)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, the new sugar sector regulation adopted in 2006 and already being implemented is a bitter pill and it has claimed its first victims. We, of course, voted against it and were right to do so: sugar mills have closed and many sugar beet growers have ended up unemployed. They receive paltry compensation which is intended to stifle their opposition and protests. In my country, Greece, sugar beet cultivation used to guarantee that the people were self-sufficient in sugar; it provided many workers and farmers with work and injected economic life into neglected regions. Today, two out of five factories have closed, production has fallen by 50%, unemployment in the sector has risen, farmers have been made destitute and whole regions have been devastated. The amendments proposed today are aimed at fully implementing the new regulation. There is to be no let up in the diminishing rate of production, fixed at a shortfall of 2.2 million tonnes and increasing to a planned shortfall of 6 million tonnes. This means an even greater impact than we have already seen. The winners will be the food industrialists, who will import cheap sugar; the losers will be sugar industry workers, since more mills will close and further numbers of small and medium-sized sugar beet producers will be wiped out. We oppose this and we will vote against the additional arrangements: they are hastening the completion of the basic regulation and are yet another criminal ploy in the campaign against the European sugar industry and its workers."@en1

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