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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-07-04"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Vote2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020704.4.4-130"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-07-04-Speech-4-1312
lpv:speaker	lp:Erik Meijer2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Socialistische Partij (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (1999-10-13--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Slovak Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Czech Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	". Globalisation in the neo-liberal sense means that the companies that produce the cheapest goods always win. For some time, this was seen as a huge advantage to the consumer and a form of justice. It is increasingly becoming evident that many of these products can only be so cheap because of appallingly low wages, unhealthy and unsafe working conditions, dismissal of workers as soon as they are surplus to requirements for the shortest period of time, child labour, the destruction of nature, pollution of the environment and torture of animals. The Committee on Employment and Social Affairs rightly notes that the World Trade Organisation makes it extremely difficult to do anything about these wrongs. The solution is seen as the EU manifesting itself as a superpower in order to be able to enforce better rules. I am generally not in favour of the EU acting as a superpower, but where it concerns enforcing better standards for labour and the environment compared to the low standards in America and the developing world, I wholeheartedly endorse this role. The question is whether an invitation to the European Commission, the Council, the Member States and the employers’ organisations to follow the International Labour Organisation during the forthcoming WTO negotiations is all that is required, or whether we are also prepared to protest against a permanently unwilling WTO."@en1

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