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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2008-05-19"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Community Tobacco Fund (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20080519.24.1-137"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2008-05-19-Speech-1-1382
lpv:speaker	lp:Kartika Tamara Liotard2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; EUL/NGL (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; LIBE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (including Libya) (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3 substitute; AGRI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2007-03-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; FEMM (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Socialistische Partij (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; ENVI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"It is difficult to say what is more absurd, that the European Union subsidies tobacco growing, or that Europe then uses part of the subsidies for a fund that discourages tobacco smoking. Totally hypocritical measures like that are precisely the reason why the EU has so little credibility with the public. The argument that the EU produces relatively little tobacco is beside the point. There is still one EU-subsidised cigarette in every packet. That cigarette is then in any case of such inferior quality that we do not want to smoke it in Europe and we dump it somewhere else. The tobacco subsidy must not be continued, as this Parliament wishes. Part of the subsidies must also not be used for anti-smoking campaigns as a fig leaf, as the Commission wishes. I have had enough of these subsidies. They must simply be abolished immediately."@en1

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