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Today textiles, tomorrow footwear, cars, machine parts, steel; and subsequently electronic goods and high added value products, if indeed that process is not already underway. How many more European industrial sectors are you going to sacrifice with your blinkered attitude? How many millions more people will be laid off on account of your fanatical devotion to globalisation?
China does not honour its commitments to the World Trade Organisation. You are aware of this – it is written in your report. State grants to companies and exporters, closed markets, voluntary monetary dumping, counterfeiting, pirating; the Chinese are guilty of a host of unfair practices.
The most significant one, however, is the lack of freedom, not least union freedom, which denies Chinese workers the chance to request pay rises or improved working conditions.
Our interests and those of the countries and the people of Europe, of our jobs and of our economies must take precedence over suicidal adherence to the dogma of free trade carried to extremes. Every country in the world, including the United States, has grasped this, but not the Europe of Brussels.
Even though it has the merit of raising a number of issues, this report fails to address the issues of protection or retaliatory measures and to bring globalisation into question, and it consequently falls short of what is required."@en1
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