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dcterms:Date	"2008-09-25"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Marios Matsakis2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, this directive is wonderful in theory, but it could turn out to be a nightmare in practice. I say this because it could lead to services getting better in some centres but worse in others. I will give you an example: if patients from a small country like Cyprus with a neurosurgical problem all go to Sweden or Britain to have their neurosurgical treatment, then what will happen to the neurosurgical services in Cyprus? The standards will diminish, inevitably, and this holds for cardiovascular services, for orthopaedic services, for oncological services and for many others. So we must be very careful. I fully support this directive, but we must make sure that we do not make good centres better and bad centres worse. We must be careful to raise the health standards right across Europe, in large countries as well as in small countries."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Dimokratiko Komma (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member_of_the_bureau; ALDE (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; DROI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; ENVI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; AFET (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of the Andean Community (2007-03-15--2009-07-13)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Marios Matsakis (ALDE ). -"1
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