Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-11-18-Speech-2-025"

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dcterms:Date	"2008-11-18"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Neil Parish2
lpv:spoken text	"Madam President, let me begin by offering my thanks to Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel; Mr Barnier, President-in-Office of the Council; Mr Capoulas Santos, rapporteur; and also Lutz Goepel, for the cooperation we have had, as well as all members of the committee for their hard work, because we are 27 Member States and, whilst we do not quite have 27 positions on this report, we do still have quite a number, and we came together in committee to reach what I consider is a sensible compromise. Let me also thank the Commissioner for her cooperation and help and in particular Michel Barnier, because we have had enhanced cooperation, if not codecision. We have to move forward now and adopt a report and reach a compromise and a position in order that farmers in Europe know exactly where they are going. There is a need for the production of food – we saw that clearly last year – and we need to free up farmers from bureaucracy; we need simplification. We also need farmers to make business decisions for themselves. So we have to move forward. Yes, we need some crisis management, but we must not return to the days of having intervention – the balance must be right. Many of us fly around Europe and when we land we like a soft landing, and milk quotas also need a soft landing. We do need to free up the market. The Commissioner said that last year there was a demand for dairy products, this year not so much – but next year there could be a greater demand again and we need the flexibility to meet it. Agriculture and the rural environment are one and the same and we have to move to make sure that we deal with climate change and the management of water, that we look at biofuels and biogas and that we really put Europe in a good position. We must not go backwards, because we are in a good position when it comes to the WTO. Let us go forward and actually reform the agricultural policy."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Neil Parish (PPE-DE ). -"1
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