European Parliament 16 January 2001, WRITTEN QUESTION P-0035/01 by María Izquierdo Rojo (PSE) to the Commission. Discrimination against male pensioners as regards child allowances.

4. How does it view such an attempt to depopulate remote areas and banish the inhabitants to the towns which recalls the tragedy in Vietnam where attempts were made in the 60s and 70s, also through American intervention, to make disputed areas uninhabitable for human beings with defoliants (the notorious ‘Agent Orange’)? 5.