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"The rapporteur is backing the March 2000 Summit in Lisbon which declared that the EU would be the world’s most competitive region within ten years. The high price we need to pay for this will even lead to many Europeans not having a sense of victory when the project proves successful. In the US and Japan, many people are worse off than in large parts of Europe, despite considerable company profits and growth. Competition means that those who manage to sell the cheapest products and services at minimum cost survive to the detriment of everyone else. The latter cannot, therefore, afford to take issues such as human rights, working conditions, public health, the environment and animal welfare too seriously. State support, government initiatives and Community enterprises are crucial instruments for correcting the adverse effects of the market and for promoting the well-being of people and of the environment. I condemn state support if it is aimed only at using tax revenue to compete better against others within a free market, as in the case of aviation, but not at maintaining facilities and regional employment in vulnerable regions. The re-nationalisation of regional policy, feared by the rapporteur, cuts down on red-tape and waste, but does need to be offset by contributions provided, in a spirit of solidarity, by rich Member States for the benefit of the poor."@en1
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