Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-03-10-Speech-1-060"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-03-10"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) within the WTO, including cultural diversity2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030310.4.1-060"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-03-10-Speech-1-0612
lpv:speaker	lp:Eryl Margaret McNALLY2
lpv:spoken text	"Commissioner, since your appointment you have adopted a very good habit of consulting and informing the European Parliament, for which we are grateful. We are also grateful for your support for the changes to the Treaty necessary to give us the powers we need in the trade area. Just as you are responsive to us, we have to be responsive to those who elect us. You know as well as we do that there are genuine and widespread worries about GATS. You have mentioned some of them: transparency, the feeling that a lot of unsavoury things are being done secretly; threats to EU jobs, which have prompted, I suppose, the dock workers' demonstration we saw today; threats to public services, with particularly acute dangers to developing countries; threats to the ability of Member States to regulate, and particular fears in the culture area, on which others will speak. At the same time, the European public is well aware – since 60% of them or more work in service industries – that there are possibilities for EU firms in widespread trade in services. So they face the dual interest which you have delineated. Developing countries have not rejected GATS completely. However, the fears about public services, regulation and extension and the fact that the developing countries do not have the capacity for the administration that an opening-up of service markets will require all mean that the implications of opening up trade in services need to be very fully assessed. I would put more emphasis on that than on anything else in our resolution. Before we go any further we want to know - not in a perfunctory exercise but in a detailed and comprehensive assessment - what this means."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Labour Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of South America and MERCOSUR (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"McNally (PSE )."1

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