Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-09-04-Speech-4-167"
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The draft resolution presented by Mr Lannoye is a very complete response to the scandal of the drinking water shortages experienced by hundreds of millions of people in developing countries. It questions the responsibility of large international organisations that dismantled public services, leading to this situation. It has, however, found a majority in this House by getting rid of some of the content of the resolution through amendments that refuse to point the finger and, therefore, beyond good feeling, has used its influence to push for a real improvement in the standard of living of those affected. The adoption of Amendment No 15 which ‘stresses that the key issue is not whether water provision is organised by a public or private entity but rather the specific obligations provided by the policy framework; considers that it is up to the public authorities in developing countries to define the legal framework for regulating the work of private operators’, changes the essence of the report. It is the commercialisation of this common good that is at the root of these inequalities of access, of the shortage and excessive cost in developed countries as in developing countries. The adoption of this meant that I was obliged to abstain in the final vote."@en1
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