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"Mr President, Commissioner, Europe still has cause to worry about its textile industry. As a Vice-President of the International Textile, Clothing and Leather Workers’ Association, I am only too familiar with the present situation, and with the potential social consequences of the job losses that are threatened. The degree to which the Member States are prepared to meet the new situation does indeed vary widely.
That there is ever-increasing interpenetration of goods in the global economy is self-evident, and it is of course the case in China too. Even I can see that, but the rate at which trade is currently being liberalised, accompanied by exports increasing at an unheard-of rate, does of course jeopardise everything. In Europe alone, over a million jobs are seriously at risk, while on a global scale – and this I say with my vice-presidential hat on – over 30 million textile workers are under pressure, with the threat of their jobs going elsewhere. That is how things stand on the global market at the moment.
The question is, then, whether the majority of the EU of 25 will, for reasons of solidarity, throw their weight behind protection clauses and whether, now that the textile industry has cried out for help, it might also be possible to get the process speeded up. September might be too late. Today, it is the textile industry; tomorrow it will be someone else’s turn. It is in those terms that we appeal to you."@en1
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