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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-11-19"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Shipbuilding2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19991119.4.5-060"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-11-19-Speech-5-0612
lpv:speaker	lp:Laura González Álvarez2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EUL/NGL (1999-07-20--2003-07-07)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America and Mexico (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Izquierda Unida (1999-07-20--2003-07-07)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; PETI (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; EMPL (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, to follow on from Mr Medina Ortega, I would like to remind you that the Commission and the Council almost always propose employment plans to the governments. They propose that we fight unemployment and say that we must put an end to unemployment in Europe. Commissioner, employment plans are not much use if, on the one hand, jobs are constantly being lost in many of our sectors and, specifically, in the sector which we are talking about today, the shipbuilding sector, which involves 300,000 jobs in Europe and around 45,000 in Spain. This seems to us to be an impossible equation. If you remove the subsidies to our sector, if the Korean sector continues to be subsidised, if working conditions in Europe are to be as they should be, that is very advanced, and in Korea they are terrible, the equation is impossible. It is going to be impossible to maintain this sector. And I do not want this to happen in the future. In Spain there are seven regions with a shipbuilding sector. Commissioner, I come from a small region of a million inhabitants. In recent years, as a result of European policies and the policies of successive governments, we have lost 6,000 direct jobs in the steel industry, 6,000 direct jobs in mining, 10,000 small agricultural businesses, we have lost jobs in the arms industry and we have lost jobs in the shipbuilding industry. When measures are introduced in the European Union – and I know that what I am going to say is out of fashion with many of my colleagues – much account is taken of the laws of the market and of competitiveness. The human factor is never, or almost never, taken into account. And the human factor is fundamental in the European Union. I am afraid to say, Commissioner, that if we continue to lose jobs in the fundamental sectors of our industry, our institutions will no longer have any credibility. If the aid stops in December, if aid is maintained in Korea, if in Spain furthermore it is proposed that 18,000 million pesetas of aid, which was granted to the shipbuilding sector, be returned, we are destroying the sector. Let us not fool ourselves, let us not use rhetoric. I am very sorry to say this, Commissioner, but if we do not adopt urgent and energetic measures, this sector, as well as other industrial sectors in the European Union, is going to go to ruin, to put it politely."@en1

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