Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-02-13-Speech-1-122"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2006-02-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:State aid reform (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20060213.12.1-122"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-02-13-Speech-1-1232
lpv:speaker	lp:Diamanto Manolakou2
lpv:spokenAs	member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (2004-07-20--2008-05-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2008-05-19)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2008-05-19)3 member; AGRI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees (2004-09-15--2008-05-19)3 unknown; Kommounistiko Komma Elladas (2004-07-20--2008-05-19)3 substitute; ECON (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, State aid, in other words the workers' money, is in the firing line, the objective being to reduce it and have management of it controlled by the European Union, so that it can serve the Lisbon Strategy. This means less State aid for grass-roots needs and servicing of the competitiveness of European capital. In other words, the people's money will be not for grass-roots prosperity, but for the profitability of capital. The references to State aid for purposes of general interest and in the public good at European Union level not only demonstrate indifference to the asymmetrical development between the Member States, but also prejudge that such a procedure will further strengthen this asymmetrical development by increasing inequality and injustice. It is vital, they say, to reduce State aid, in order for it to have positive results. Do remote rural and island areas, such as those in my country, in which capital does not invest because there is no or little profit, really have to be abandoned completely, including by State aid, and be laid to waste? They are already being abandoned, to a degree, and it looks like this will intensify in future. Public services are being privatised, basic grass-roots needs are being commercialised. The reduction in State aid and its orientation towards servicing the anti-grass roots Lisbon Strategy will exacerbate still further the situation of the grass-roots classes. Despite the reference to the financing of small- and medium-sized enterprises for investments, unfortunately the evidence shows that, so far, economic aid for small businesses has been non-existent or has been dispensed with a dropper. By contrast, for big business there has been open-handedness and it is big business that benefits and, with today's proposals, will be strengthened even more."@en1

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