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"Mr President, we really would like to believe the assurances given by Mr Sasi and Mr Lamy on Europe’s aim in Seattle to limit the harmful effects of further liberalisation without rules on multilateral trade under the usual stars and stripes flag of globalisation. We would like to believe them, but bitter experience prevents us. Take, for example, Mr Lamy’s predecessor, Sir Leon Brittan, whose commitments in this Parliament to oppose the American steamroller were often disregarded – just think of the case of HelmsBurton and the WTO. We realise that times have changed radically, and that awareness accompanied by protests is spreading across the world and that the slogan ‘what is good for big business is good for the world at large’ is no longer shouted from the rooftops. Let us hope that what we have heard today is not just a public relations reaction, a placebo, or a tranquilliser."@en1
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