Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-09-07-Speech-4-035"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-09-07"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Sport2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000907.1.4-035"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-09-07-Speech-4-0362
lpv:speaker	lp:Konstantinos Alyssandrakis2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Cyprus Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; EUL/NGL (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Kommounistiko Komma Elladas (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, sport, like culture, education and health, is gradually being hijacked by commercialisation and the so-called law of the market. Three million people dancing attendance at major sporting events and huge profits for business have eclipsed the athletic ideal. Fitness training and sport as a daily exercise and popular sport are in dire straits. As long as the winners see ‘sport plc’ thriving, doping will increase, transfer fees will increase – another form of human trafficking in a modern capitalist society – and the problem of violence at football stadiums and various other signs of degeneration will increase. Despite acknowledging that the main reason for the increase in doping is excessive commercialisation, the Commission is doing nothing to combat it. How could it, when the entire structure of the European Union is built on the principle of ‘there is nothing which cannot be bought or sold’? It confines itself to half measures. Studies, codes of conduct with passing references to controls. If they intended, and really wanted, to combat doping, they would have already done so. But it is not in the interests of the International Olympic Committee, the international federations, the sponsors who invest in sport or the pharmaceutical industry. The two reports do contain positive elements, but they go so far, in the Zabell report, as to state that the pharmaceutical industry cares about the health of athletes and, in the Mennea report, as to suggest that Member States adopt practical measures in their legislation to encourage private investment in sport. Unless we crack down on commercialisation, unless we erect barriers to speculation by big business, unless we introduce basic and efficient controls, nothing will change in sport. We do not expect the European Union to take any such action, so we are struggling to develop a popular movement which will fight for modern sport to rediscover the principle of ‘a healthy mind in a healthy body’."@en1

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