Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-09-21-Speech-2-698"

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dcterms:Date	"2010-09-21"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:European strategy for the economic and social development of mountain regions, islands and sparsely populated areas (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20100921.23.2-698"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2010-09-21-Speech-2-6992
lpv:speaker	lp:Timo Soini2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; CULT (2009-07-20--2011-04-25)3 unknown; Perussuomalaiset (2009-07-14--2011-04-25)3 chair_of_the_bureau; EFD (2010-02-16--2011-04-25)3 member; Delegation for relations with Canada (2009-09-16--2011-04-25)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand (2009-09-16--2011-04-25)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Switzerland and Norway and to the EU-Iceland Joint Parliamentary Committee and the European Economic Area (EEA) Joint Parliamentary Committee (2010-09-16--2011-04-25)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Finland is a large country, with an area around the size of Great Britain, but there are only 5.3 million of us. I think that this is something that enriches our lives enormously: the land is no longer being developed anywhere. The world and Europe are becoming crowded, but clean water and nature are a vital necessity. Taxes are levied on people in the back of beyond, so everyone is entitled to basic services. Sparsely populated areas are as important as the towns and cities, because everyone and every life has value. In Finland, my country, Lapland, eastern Finland and the central parts of the country are sparsely populated, but they all make a contribution to the country’s infrastructure and are a part of Finland as a whole, a country where, furthermore, we have been and are able to engage in commercially sustainable activities. We in the EU, which I view with scepticism, must also be able to see that activities must be economically viable. Moreover, there also needs to be development in these regions. We also need to ensure that we do not increase the rate of rural depopulation as a result of Union legislation. It is with respect to this point that I take an especially critical view of the imminent Postal Services Directive. Those gentlemen would do well to go off to these sparsely populated areas to check what time the mail comes. These are the sorts of things that I wish to emphasise, and if we make any headway, I might even become a bit less critical."@en1
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