Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-10-25-Speech-4-107"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-10-25"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:VOTE2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20011025.1.4-107"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-10-25-Speech-4-1082
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	". The existence of a World Trade Organisation could perhaps be useful if it were limited to helping individual states to set up trade contacts with other, remote states. Unfortunately, the pretensions of the current WTO go much further than that. It is trying to impose standards on Member States in which the protection of jobs, the environment and public services is subordinated to freedom of trade and the protection of big multinational companies. The WTO has become a kind of alternative United Nations, but one in which it is not the power of the number of inhabitants but the power of money that counts. As a result of the imposed globalisation, the gulf between rich countries who export expensive, high-tech products and poor countries who are dependent on exports of cheap raw materials from agriculture and mining is widening. The profits from investments in these countries flow back to the richest countries. This WTO is trying to maintain these abuses, and in doing so forms a threat to welfare, the environment and democracy. Mr Désir is making a creditable attempt to promote openness and democracy in international trade. I support him in this, but I fear that it will be insufficient without further changes."@en1

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