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Mr President, while we sympathise greatly with the citizens who find themselves in this invidious position, we in UKIP believe that the situation in Valencia over land grab is one which should have been dealt with by bilateral agreements between Spain and the individual countries concerned. Instead, I suspect the European Parliament is once again using a sledgehammer to miss the nut.
Town planning is a field that needs to remain at local level in order for the needs of local areas to fall on understanding ears. A centralised policy would compound, not ameliorate, the problem. We have seen that time and time again with so-called European projects. Let me remind you of a few examples.
Firstly, we have the common fisheries policy, with its seriously damaging quota system. Hailed as an environmental project, it has done near irreparable damage to fish stocks. A huge proportion of fish processing plants in the United Kingdom have been forced to close and local fishing economies have been devastated. And how can we talk about disasters without mentioning the CAP, which created wine lakes and butter mountains and is now giving Commissioner Mandelson as much of a headache as it is the farmers in the developing world? In essence, Chirac, by protecting the little French farmer, is holding the world to ransom. Instead of stabilising the prices of primary product markets, the EU is harming the very people it says it wishes to help.
The situation facing those non-Spanish nationals in Valencia, including many UK citizens, should be dealt with on a government-to-government basis. I lament the fact that the British Government has failed to reach a bilateral agreement with Spain on this issue. Instead, we see the EU octopus bureaucracy once again using private misfortune to plunder the sovereignty of Member States."@en1
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