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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-01-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Prospects for the Doha Development Round after the WTO General Council meeting of 15 December 20032
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040113.6.2-161"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-01-13-Speech-2-1622
lpv:speaker	lp:William Abitbol2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with the countries of south-east Europe (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; AFCO (2002-01-21--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Rassemblement pour la France (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; EDD (2001-03-15--2004-07-19)3 substitute; ECON (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, among the many failures that marked the history of the European Union in 2003 – the split on Iraq, the rejection of the euro by Sweden, the wreck of the Stability Pact and the fiasco of the draft constitution – the rout of the Commission in Cancún, which we debated in this very House just a short time ago, could in the end have been regarded as a minor incident. The vast majority of countries and people were actually glad that the Cancún Conference collapsed. The earth did not stop turning as a result and neither, moreover, did the world of trade. We could have left it at that and therefore preserved our way of life, because that is what this is all about, the covetousness of multinational markets. But we were reckoning without the Commission’s being so proactive; without you, Commissioner Lamy, being so proactive, if I may say so. In fact, this proactive stance owes nothing to any economic or social imperative – we have not heard anyone lament the failure of Cancún – but is actually due entirely to your desire to exercise and defend the Commission’s monopoly on representing the EU and negotiating on its behalf in the field of international business and external trade. The relentless pursuit of this goal that you are proposing to us is in fact not at all guided by the interests of Europe, but by the specific interests of the Commission in Brussels, at a time when the danger threatening our external trade, Commissioners, is not the lack of new outlets for our products but quite clearly the insurmountable and intolerable handicap imposed on us by an introverted European Central Bank, which delivers the most expensive, and by no means the strongest, currency in the world."@en1

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