Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-02-13-Speech-2-252"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-02-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Common organisation of the market in wine (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20070213.19.2-252"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-02-13-Speech-2-2532
lpv:speaker	lp:Marie-Hélène Aubert2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Les Verts-Europe-Ecologie (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; DEVE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; AGRI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; G/EFA (2004-07-20--2007-02-26)3 member; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2007-06-23)3 member; PECH (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, it is a few months ago now since we were taken by surprise by the agreement on wine concluded with the United States, on which we had to call for an urgent debate and which already contained some of the bad ingredients of the reform you are proposing today: weakening of the European criteria for wine quality, confusion over geographical indications and designations of origin, acceptance of highly questionable oenological practices, greater opening of the market, which will benefit standardised products that are thought to be to the taste of the equally standardised world consumer. Undoubtedly merchants and exporters will benefit, but the development of products with intimate cultural links to their local area certainly will not; neither will the diversity and the very rich flavours of European wines, nor the consumer, who will soon be forced to swill concoctions that hardly deserve to be called wine, and certainly not the winegrowers who work hard, sometimes in difficult regions and on small areas, to maintain a high quality of wine and the pleasure of drinking it. Alright, let us put an end to the most absurd mechanisms that encourage overproduction and have too many perverse effects, but please, Commissioner, fight with us and put in place the resources to promote quality wines, to make the most of the variety of flavours and territories, to preserve the soil and biodiversity and to tell the whole world about the wonderful alchemy of European wine that has existed for over 2 000 years."@en1

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