Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-12-14-Speech-3-237-750"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2011-12-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Explanations of vote2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20111214.22.3-237-750"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2011-12-14-Speech-3-238-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Eija-Riitta Korhola2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EPP (2009-07-14--2012-07-10)3 unknown; Kansallinen Kokoomus (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 vice-chair; IMCO (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; ITRE (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the United States (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"I just voted against the report by Mr Haglund, whom I greatly admire, but then so did he and so did a large number of my fellow Members. Continuing the EU’s Fisheries Partnership Agreement with Morocco would be unthinkable, not just for fish stocks, but also in terms of economics and human rights. The evaluation report ordered by the Commission also came to this conclusion. I do understand the position of some of my fellow Members from Mediterranean countries, where the fishing industry has a financial interest in this matter, but, all the same, the facts do not support the agreement. This is what Parliament and the Committees on Budgets and Development have also said in their statements. The agreement with Morocco is, in financial terms, the second biggest the EU has (EUR 36.1 million a year). In its evaluation report, the Commission stated, for example, that this agreement is economically the least attractive of all the EU’s trade agreements, as we get back just 65 cents for each euro invested. Fish stocks are, furthermore, fully or overexploited. The agreement is also, in practice, contrary to international law, because the Sahrawi people in Western Sahara will not benefit whatsoever, even though it concerns their territorial waters, rather than those of Morocco, which would not have rights to exploit natural resources in this way. I would, however, point out that, in voting against the report, I am not voting against Morocco. Cooperation between the EU and Morocco is important in itself, and is engaged in via the neighbourhood policy, as it should be. This is more a matter of the Fisheries Partnership Agreement alone, and about our obligation to examine the extent to which the agreement is in line with sustainable development."@en1

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