Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-03-30-Speech-2-003"
| Predicate | Value (sorted: default) |
|---|---|
| rdf:type | |
| dcterms:Date | |
| dcterms:Is Part Of | |
| dcterms:Language | |
| lpv:document identification number |
"en.20040330.1.2-003"2
|
| lpv:hasSubsequent | |
| lpv:speaker | |
| lpv:spokenAs | |
| lpv:translated text |
"Mr President, today, and over the next few days, dozens of farmers from Karditsa, Trikala, Larissa and Magnisia in Thessalia and from other areas of Greece will stand in the dock accused of having taken part in rural demonstrations held in order to rebuff the all-out attack on them from the common agricultural policy and avoid being wiped out, so that they can stay on their land and in their villages.
The previous government responded to the reasonable demands of the farmers with hundreds of rural tribunals, which were set up throughout the country and sentenced farmers in order to break their fighting spirit. Governments come and go but the rural tribunals stay. The criminalisation of rural demonstrations is designed to terrorise the fighters of poor and middle-class farming into stopping their fight to overturn this policy, which has brought such hardship to Mediterranean products and to their income and has resulted in the abandonment of the countryside. The new Greek Government which, when in opposition, said that it disagreed with these prosecutions, is keeping quiet like a new Pontius Pilate.
From this tribune we condemn the pogrom continuing even today of the fighters of the rural movement and we demand an immediate end to it. It is certain that no trial or sentence will break their fighting spirit. The poor farmers will fight to stay in their villages and on their land, they will continue their productive activity, because it is a question of life for them and their families."@en1
|
Named graphs describing this resource:
The resource appears as object in 2 triples