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"Madam President, Mr Patten’s intervention was very intelligent and demonstrated his ability and knowledge. Mr Patten knows the Far East extremely well – he has been closely involved there – and the majority of today’s speakers probably know South America better.
He has described the situation in very clear and very economic terms, and that is that, while the countries of the Far East have in recent years gone from misery – by adapting to the new situation – to a higher standard of living, in the countries of Latin America the standard of living has declined and, in 50 or 60 years, a country such as Argentina has gone from exceeding the European average to being below it.
Mr Patten is right, but the problem is that at the moment – this is what the Latin American countries tell us – the international system is obliging the countries of Latin America to reduce their standard of living, to proletarianise and to introduce a genuine revolution, in other words, to ‘Asianise’ itself.
The problem is cultural and serious. And we hope, of course, that the European Union will not just take account of cold economic factors, but also the cultural and political factors which will provide the conditions for maintaining democracy in that region."@en1
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