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". – Mr President, I shall be mercifully brief. Firstly, in response to Mr Elles, we should be delighted to provide, as a backdrop to the discussion on the communication we shall produce in the new year on the strengthening of the dialogue between Europe and the United States, an analysis of the progress that we have made so far since 1990. We should be delighted to incorporate in that analysis a review of the way that the various dialogues have been developing. That is a useful idea and we will certainly follow it up.
Secondly, we will also pursue the very important point Mrs Mann made on mutual recognition agreements and we should take account of her wise observation that one must not get trade disputes out of proportion. I think I am right in saying that EU/US trade amounts to about EUR 1billion a day and the total worth of the sanctions applied by the United States against European goods represents about six hours' worth of trade. So, as the honourable Member said, we should not get these things out of proportion.
I was interested by what Mrs Lucas said about world trade and the importance of trying to ensure that increasingly free trade works in the interests of the poor as well as the better off. I know that my colleague Commissioner Lamy will want to pursue his thoughts and the Commission's latest thoughts on how to revive the WTO round with the United States and also with this Parliament. I know he has a good and very constructive dialogue with Parliament and with the committees with an interest in these issues.
I think Mrs Boudjenah, who spoke about the death penalty, was probably present in the Chamber a few weeks ago when we had an extremely interesting debate on the death penalty, which touched on the situation in the United States, among other countries. I believe I am right in recalling that there have been 81 executions in the United States this year. We have made, and will continue to make, individual and collective representations about the death penalty in the United States. I should like to assure the honourable Member of that. We take a very clear position on the death penalty around the world, and that relates to our friends in the United States as well as to others elsewhere who may not be quite so well-disposed.
Mr Gollnisch and I perhaps look at the world through different spectacles. I am not greatly persuaded of the arguments about the devilish hegemonist in Washington. I do not agree with everything the United States does, but we in Europe have good cause to recall the contribution which the United States made during the second half of the last century to our freedom and prosperity. But the honourable Member is entirely right that there are issues like the environment, trade, landmines, extraterritoriality and legislation where we take a rather different position from the United States. We should take that position vigorously, without thinking that to do so will somehow undermine our relationship with our greatest friends and allies."@en1
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