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dcterms:Date	"2017-04-03"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20170403.21.1-197-000"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:James Nicholson2
lpv:spoken text	"Madam President, I thank the Commissioner for what he has said tonight. This scandal, when I raised it in the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development – with the full support of the committee – certainly brought home to us how dangerous this situation can be. But I say to the Commissioner: this is not the first time Brazil has pulled the wool over Europe’s eyes. They did it back in 2007 and 2008, and it took a delegation from this Parliament to go out there to prove that your Commission was not telling us everything. So Commissioner, I have to say to you tonight – and the previous speakers and Ms McGuinness have referred to this – you have not answered all the questions that we asked. We need more answers. This is simply not good enough. And if they have pulled the wool over our eyes once again then we have got to ask the question: how long are we going to allow them to do similar actions as they have done in the past? I sincerely hope you are not telling us here tonight that nothing will change, because if that is the case that is unacceptable, certainly from my point of view and from the point of view of consumers throughout the European Union. And you are quite right: you told us here tonight that we in Europe are the best, we have the highest possible standards that anyone can hope for. But that is something that has got to be kept right; and it is not right if we allow other countries to break that. And it is even more wrong that you say talks with Mercosur will go on and the negotiations there will go on. They must be ended as well."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia (2016-12-14--2017-05-10)3 member_of_the_bureau; PECH (2017-02-09--2017-07-04)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"James Nicholson,"1 "on behalf of the ECR Group"1
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