Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-10-27-Speech-4-308-000"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2011-10-27"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Bahrain2
dcterms:Language	"pt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20111027.22.4-308-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2011-10-27-Speech-4-309-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Rui Tavares2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with the Mercosur countries (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; DROI (2011-09-15--2012-01-18)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; LIBE (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; G/EFA (2011-06-24--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Independente (2011-06-30--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, in the first half of this year, which was marked by the events of the Arab Spring, sales of arms to Libya, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain totalled EUR 35 million. Do not answer by telling me that there is now an embargo in place and that these weapons did not kill demonstrators. Shortly before the United Nations announced an embargo on the transfer of arms to Libya in February, the UK was happily selling EUR 72 350 worth of arms to Gaddafi. The initial offer by the EU to refugees from Libya was EUR 4 million. The sum that the EU Member States made from the profits of the sale of arms to Gaddafi in 2009 totalled EUR 300 million. The Arab peoples have shown immense courage in fighting their dictators and tyrants. It seems to me that Europe has not shown the same courage in fighting against their own past complicity and collusion with some of those tyrants, and they think that now they will be able to wipe the slate clean, merely by offering their financial support to the Arab Spring. The EU is currently involved in some aspects of the repression of the opposition in Bahrain. I am not talking about the Member States but our companies. There are European companies which, under pressure from the Bahraini authorities, have fired their employees for engaging in opposition activities. There are European companies which have participated in distorting satellite transmissions. I am talking about Eutelnet.com in particular, because of the content relating to the opposition that they passed to Bahrain. The EU has responsibilities, as do European companies, if, for example, they benefit from European funds. It must be said that the complicity of European companies with the repression in Bahrain must cease."@en1
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