Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-09-29-Speech-4-016"
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"Mr President, the go-ahead for the unblocking of Chinese textiles was clearly a concession to China. It is contrary to the Shanghai philosophy of a controlled increase in imports in order to give the European industry time to adapt. The bureaucracy of the Commission bears a great deal of responsibility here. The Commission has given preference to the interests of importers. The crisis in a traditional industry, the European textile industry, comes before them. Factories are closing one after the other. Workers' jobs come before the interests of importers. That is the European interest and the European Commission, the guardian of European interest, is being called on to protect it.
I personally am not in favour of neo-protectionist trends in international trade. Nonetheless, aggressive Chinese imports demonstrate that the balance of the world trade system depends on converging systems, institutional transparency and converging social and environmental protection standards. It also depends on effective protection for intellectual and industrial property and avoiding economic, social and ecological dumping practices. In addition, I believe that effective measures for the gradual adaptation of the European textile industry are needed, as are the necessary balancing measures in keeping with WTO law. The Commission needs to leave all the bombast behind. We, Parliament, have Mrs Saïfi's report and the relevant motion which accompanies it; we are pointing out the way forward for the European Commission."@en1
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