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"Mr Khanbhai is once again proving to be an effective champion for developing countries. He recognises the right of every country to protect its products by raising tariff barriers and urges rich countries to open themselves up to exported products from the poorest countries in spite of all this. He also asks the wealthy countries to spend a minimum of 0.7% of their Gross National Product on development aid and recognises the need to redistribute agricultural land ownership. I hope his views are shared by his Christian Democratic and Conservative group colleagues. Unfortunately they have discovered a new priority during recent times. This is the priority of free trade, that is, support for the wrong kind of globalisation than is encouraged by the World Trade Organisation. If free trade is implemented, this will mean survival of the fittest. Companies with the lowest labour and environmental costs will then be able to steal the market from their competitors, wealthy countries will become richer at the expense of the poorest and the number of those excluded will grow at national level and world level. It is therefore delightful to see that a majority is now forming for an attitude which relies on solidarity rather than the opinion ‘you do not get anything for nothing’. Incidentally, I am aware that this relates to a non-legislative initiative proposal with few direct consequences in practice."@en1
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