Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-12-14-Speech-1-091"

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dcterms:Date	"2009-12-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Crisis in agricultural sectors other than the dairy sector (debate)2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20091214.15.1-091"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2009-12-14-Speech-1-0922
lpv:speaker	lp:Luis Manuel Capoulas Santos2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; AGRI (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Partido Socialista (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; PECH (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the Mercosur countries (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; S&D (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Commissioner, I would like to thank you for being here in this Chamber again – that has been a constant throughout your mandate – even though the Commission is in this transitional phase. The problems of agriculture have no sympathy for the whims of the political calendar, however, and farmers are expecting us to provide solutions to their problems, difficulties and anxieties. As we are all aware, the economic crisis has also affected agriculture – not just the dairy sector, as the media would have us believe, but other sectors as well. Milk, fruit and vegetables, cereals and olive oil have been hit hard in recent months, just as meat production had been previously, due to the enormous hikes in production costs that occurred then. The situation for fruit and vegetables is likely to get even worse when the market is opened wider still to Moroccan products under the new agreement that is currently being adopted. It is a fact, as the Commissioner has pointed out, that the markets have shown positive signs in recent weeks, but we should not get too excited about that because, if the upswing comes, as we all hope it will, it will certainly bring with it an increase in the price of oil and hence an inevitable rise in agricultural production costs. Therefore, Commissioner, despite the political calendar, Parliament has to demand that the Commission provide answers to these questions. Farmers are waiting for political signals from Parliament and the Commission, and therefore, the timing of this debate that we are having here today makes perfect sense, in the hope that the Commission can give some signals and say what information it has and what measures it proposes in the short term to mitigate these problems."@en1
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