Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-06-06-Speech-1-155"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-06-06"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:EAFRD support for rural development2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20050606.17.1-155"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-06-06-Speech-1-1562
lpv:speaker	lp:James Nicholson2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I welcome this excellent report and congratulate the rapporteur. Rural development is going to make a very important contribution to the future of rural society. The rural community has been under increasing pressure to survive. I believe that when you remove the farmer and his family from rural society, it begins to disintegrate. We have already seen what happens: schools, churches and post offices close and people move away from the countryside to the towns. I know things must change and I know we have to be prepared for that change, but it has to be for the better. We do not want to see further disintegration. I believe that the Leader programme has in the main been successful and it should be developed to achieve more at local level. There is no magic wand that we can wave to bring about a magic solution. But the one thing we do need for the second pillar of the rural economy is money. When modulation develops to a larger budget, this must be deployed as direct support to secure the future of the small family farm which is the backbone of the rural economy. We must give hope to young farmers and encourage young people to make farming their future. The modulation funds must go back to the farmer and must not be thrown away on useless projects that have no hope of surviving. More encouragement should be given to farming families to develop small and medium-sized enterprises on their holdings. The bureaucratic planning authorities which, with their dogmatic beliefs, are destroying and depopulating rural society, need to show more understanding."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula (2004-10-21--2007-03-13)3 substitute; PECH (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 quaestor; European Parliament (2004-07-21--2007-01-15)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the United States (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 member; EPP-ED (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand (2004-10-13--2007-03-13)3 unknown; Ulster Unionist Party (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Quaestors (2004-07-21--2007-01-15)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia and the South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) (2004-09-16--2005-10-23)3 quaestor; Parliament's Bureau (2004-07-21--2007-01-15)3 member; REGI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; AGRI (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"James Nicholson (PPE-DE )."1

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