Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-03-13-Speech-2-151"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-03-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:VOTE2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010313.11.2-151"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-03-13-Speech-2-1522
lpv:speaker	lp:Erik Meijer2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Socialistische Partij (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (1999-10-13--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Slovak Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Temporary committee on human genetics and other new technologies in modern medicine (2000-12-13--2001-11-29)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Czech Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (2000-11-09--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	". Free trade is about more than removing borders or doing away with old-style protectionism. More than anything, it implies that the price of a product outweighs all other considerations. Whoever can deliver at the cheapest price, gains that segment of the market and drives away the more expensive producers. With ever lower transport costs, it is possible to haul any cheap raw material and any cheap end product from anywhere. The competition is forced to choose between cheaper deliveries or going under. Those in favour of this mechanism claim that it makes producers more ingenious and effective and that the consumer benefits. That is why there should be unlimited competition, ultimately at world level, if possible. Despite this, there are sound reasons for raising production costs and for protecting production from cheaper competitors. The reasons are: safety at work, proper pay for employees, ruling out child labour, effective distribution of employment across the region, care for the environment, preventing animal suffering, discouraging unnecessary traffic, and providing facilities and services which may not be money-spinners logistically speaking, but are useful and desirable nevertheless. That is a task for the democratically elected government, but WTO agreements render this task secondary to blind market forces. Although the rapporteur’s proposal is inadequate in my view, I will not vote against something which can help curb this trend."@en1

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