Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-02-23-Speech-3-239"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-02-23"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Expiry of the WTO Agreement on Textiles and Clothing2
dcterms:Language	"pl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20050223.17.3-239"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-02-23-Speech-3-2402
lpv:speaker	lp:Ryszard Czarnecki2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; SEDE (2004-07-21--2006-11-14)3 substitute; AFCO (2004-07-21--2006-11-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of south-east Europe (2004-10-13--2007-03-13)3 member; AFET (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Samoobrona RP (2004-07-20--2008-01-23)3 substitute; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2006-11-14)3 member; NA (2004-07-20--2006-11-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to thank those who initiated today’s debate. We are facing a serious problem that has affected many textile factories in my country, Poland, as well as in the EU as a whole. This has not happened over the past few weeks or months; we have in fact been confronted with an Asian invasion of cheap fabrics since the 1990s. If this were only a matter of a free market, cheaper products or a cheaper workforce, it would be hard for us to protest, given that the European Union itself promotes the principle of a free market. Yet the non-European powers in the textile market do not play by any rules, not even those that they themselves agreed to when they joined the WTO. In view of this, the European Union must join forces to defend Polish, French and German companies – indeed all companies throughout the European Union – from what must quite simply be called unfair competition."@en1

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