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"Mr President, my speech will focus on the issue of colour coding. We are told that ‘it is complicated’. That is not true; it makes things easier. We are told that ‘it is a ban’. It is not a ban; it is actually a form of information. We are told that ‘it treats consumers like children’, but in that case, we should also be told, Mr President, why it is that consumers’ associations are actually demanding this colour coding.
We must be clear, and stop all this hypocrisy and pretence. We have a choice to make here between, in fact, defending public health and the consumer, and bowing to demands from lobbies, which, moreover, are very short-term demands because, without this labelling, they are only relevant in the very short term.
As far as I am concerned, as far as we are concerned, the choice should be clear. It is perfectly clear that we are in favour of this information for consumers, information which social security and health authorities in Europe are also calling for, precisely because it is a means of combating obesity and a number of diseases.
So let us not give way! Let us be well aware of the reasons why we are here, the reasons for which we were elected. We are here to defend our fellow citizens."@en1
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