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"Mr President, Commissioner, by the year 2005 at the latest the trade talks opened in Seattle will have been completed. Mr Lamy, you will again be there, in 2005, sitting in the same seat, and you will come and tell us that the European Union has enjoyed worldwide success in these global talks. In the final text of the regulations you will have achieved some mention of the precautionary principle, of health, even phyto-sanitary matters, an ILO-OMC forum and the recognition of environmental principles, insofar as they have already been recognised at Kyoto. The dispute settlement procedure will have been improved. Developing countries will have obtained positive discrimination, financed, indeed, by the European Union, like the ACP bananas. Chickens will have a few more centimetres’ room inside their cages, in the name of the animal welfare which will have been recognised, and the world of cinema and television will have obtained support in the form of a few aid programmes.
In exchange, in order to achieve peace – and, indeed, a new peace clause – you will have made a number of concessions at Seattle. So, the “European Market” share will go from 5% to X%, there will only be residual internal support, export aid will have been prohibited, customs duties and tariff peaks will no longer be in place, direct investment will have been obtained thanks to Mr Lamy, and no thanks to the MAI, and the world market will have been established, a sort of commercial Fukuyama, and the GATT story will be over.
Then what will we do? The tenth round of the Uruguay Round will have no further business. You yourself could perhaps always go back to Crédit Lyonnais or to some multinational which hands out stock options. But what of the farmers, who will have been wiped out, the professions excluded from society, the textile industry, pharmaceuticals, shoes, heavy-duty vehicles, furniture, ships, toys, all that which will have been delivered up to competition from outside Europe, what is to become of them? It is all very well for us to produce reports, books, television programmes and fine speeches. The children of the Seattle negotiators will have their place in the twenty-first century and the children of the people excluded from society will, in turn, be excluded, since poverty is a socially transmitted disease. But, in the end, all that is unimportant. We are still strong enough to carry everyone else’s burdens."@en1
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