Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-09-11-Speech-2-738-000"

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lpv:speaker	lp:Marina Yannakoudakis2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I would like to say to Commissioner Reding that every time we ask the Commission this question, we always get the same answer. We are told that that there is no problem, yet cane refiners throughout the EU are running below capacity. Factories are closing their doors for several days a week, and this means that jobs are lost. The Commission even showed us a copy of a letter from a French cane refiner telling it that cane supplies were chronically inadequate, whilst at the same time stating that the system should remain as it is. What the Commission failed to mention, or notice, was that the refinery was owned by a beet producer, thus their desire to keep the status quo. When the Commission admits there is a problem, we are told that it is only a British problem, yet 62 MEPs from 11 Member States wrote to the Agriculture Commissioner asking for changes to be made to the sugar regime. Jobs are at risk, not only in the UK, but across Europe, especially in Portugal, Bulgaria and Romania. The Commission knows there is a problem; we know there is a problem. We must act now to create a level playing field in this industry. Commissioner, you are not responsible for agriculture but for citizenship. It is our job to protect our citizens, those whose jobs are under threat and those who are paying more at the supermarket each week. The price of sugar in the EU is 46% more than in the rest of the world. All the Commission needs to do is to look at the source of the sugar supply and fix it. If the Commission refuses to do that now, it will have let down the very people it is here to serve, and Europe will lose a key manufacturing industry."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Marina Yannakoudakis,"1 "author."1
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