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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2008-11-20"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Explanations of vote2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20081120.23.4-227"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2008-11-20-Speech-4-2362
lpv:speaker	lp:Athanasios Pafilis2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; AFET (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; EUL/NGL (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; LIBE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Kommounistiko Komma Elladas (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with India (2007-04-12--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of the Andean Community (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3 member; SEDE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	". We voted against the motion for a resolution which supports the position that the proper and equal application of Community environmental legislation is vital, because this legislation does not protect the environment; it protects the vital interests of the EU monopolies. The call for the adoption of a Community body of environmental inspectors constitutes direct intervention in the internal affairs of the Member States in order to secure the application of the 'polluter pays' principle, which permits the destruction of the environment in return for payment of a cheap consideration, the 'green taxation' which the grassroots classes have to shoulder, emissions trading, the promotion of entrepreneurship and competitiveness as the determining criteria for the development of what are otherwise innovative 'environmental' technologies, the use of genetically modified organisms in agriculture and the abolition in practice of the principles of precaution and prevention. The EU and its environmental policy, which serve the interests of big business, breed food crimes, the atmospheric pollution of city centres with 'modern pollutants', the destruction of forests, soil corrosion and desertification and the pollution of seas and waters. The environment will constitute a business sector with the objective of maximising the profits of the economic oligarchy. It will suffer the consequences of the unthinking and unaccountable exploitation of natural resources and it will be spoiled by capitalist barbarity."@en1

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