Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-03-08-Speech-2-087"
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".
Mr President, these trade debates are always very complex and generalised tariff preferences are no exception to that rule. So perhaps we are lucky to have Mr Mandelson as the Trade Commissioner; after all, he is rather more competent than the rest of the shower in the European Commission.
If we go back to first principles, the United Kingdom is the fourth largest economy in the world, the third largest trading nation in the world and the head of a Commonwealth with 30% of the world’s population in it. London is the world’s leading financial centre and English is the common business language of the world. Why then, in view of all these things, have we been represented since 1973 by the EEC, the EC, the EU and no doubt, if the Constitution is adopted, the United States of Europe? Surely it would be better for the United Kingdom to sit at the WTO in its own right. Not only do we have a better relationship with our former colonies than most other European countries, but we are not dominated by the same protectionist imperative as the European Union. That is why Oxfam has awarded the European Union its Double Standards Award for rank hypocrisy.
We want a British voice. We want real British influence and perhaps then we can give the Third World a real sporting chance."@en1
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