Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-11-17-Speech-1-161"

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dcterms:Date	"2008-11-17"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:General arrangements for excise duty (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20081117.23.1-161"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2008-11-17-Speech-1-1622
lpv:speaker	lp:Margaritis Schinas2
lpv:spokenAs	member; BUDG (2007-10-11--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2007-10-11--2009-07-13)3 member; EPP-ED (2007-10-01--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Nea Dimokratia (2007-10-01--2009-07-13)3 substitute; ECON (2007-10-10--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, we find ourselves facing yet another eccentric proposal by the Commission; with what is no more and no less than a bulldozer policy, it proposes to abolish all duty free shops at land borders between the Community and third countries. The big question is why? Why, Commissioner, did you have this thought and, having had it, why did you not table it at the consultation which you organised in 2006 and why did you not include it in an impact assessment which you were obliged to carry out within the framework of the new principle of better regulation? You must therefore explain to us why we should tell hundreds of workers that they will lose their jobs, especially in these difficult times; you must explain to us what this impact is on the internal market which is so great that you need to abolish at one fell swoop all shops at land borders with third countries, which in the case of my country, in Greece, are working extremely successfully and with no fraud problems and no impact on the internal market. Parliament and the political groups which share this opinion must also take the political responsibility for explaining to the workers why it is that we want to abolish these successful shops. As far as I am concerned – as Mrs Lulling said quite clearly and as the IMCO said quite clearly in its report – we have not been given a convincing answer, which makes us believe that, for the Commission, this is something of a whim. We have not been given a convincing answer. I therefore make an eleventh-hour appeal for us to vote tomorrow in favour of Amendments 63, 64 and 65, so as to prevent this bulldozer policy from flattening once again everything that is working in the European Union."@en1
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