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"en.20051114.12.1-019"2
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"Mr President, I should like to express my concern at the comments recently made by the EU Commissioner for Trade, Peter Mandelson, regarding the negotiations taking place under the auspices of the World Trade Organisation.
I believe that one of these comments, which he made during a meeting of the Foreign Affairs Ministers of the EU Member States held in Luxembourg on 18 October 2005, had a particularly ominous ring to it. Amongst other things, Commissioner Mandelson said at this meeting that the European Union must make concessions to other countries during the WTO negotiations, since on balance the European Union would gain more from exporting industrial goods than it would lose from reducing protection for agriculture.
What this may mean is that the Commissioner wishes to sacrifice the interests of EU agriculture during the December summit in Hong Kong, in favour of nebulous gains in other fields. I believe that the Commissioner has clearly overstepped his authority with this comment. If his ideas were put into practice, around 1.2 million jobs could be lost in the EU in the agricultural and related sectors.
I would call on the President of the European Parliament to bring these concerns to the attention of Mr Barroso, the President of the European Commission."@en1
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