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"Mr President, ‘better late than never’ is what could be said about the series of recommendations seeking to ban asbestos in the European Union. That, however, would mean forgetting the generations of workers who have died as a result of working with asbestos, even though its harmful nature was already known. It would mean forgetting the thousands of others who will die from it even once it has been banned, in a few months or years. It would also mean forgetting all the factory owners and shareholders who made a profit from asbestos knowing that it was lethal, who have been able to invest their ill-gotten gains in other sectors and whose wealth is still increasing, even as their victims continue to die.
These profiteers exploiting human suffering are not even experiencing any financial loss, for none of the European Member States is forcing them even to compensate all their current and future victims and their families.
We shall, of course, vote for these amendments, but with a feeling of nausea and anger provoked by the servile behaviour of both the European and national political institutions towards the employers concerned. It is this servility that has delayed a measure as basic as banning asbestos for so long."@en1
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