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"Mr President, thank you very much. I should like to begin by saying that I much appreciated Commissioner Špidla’s speech in this Chamber today. The greatest challenge we face in our common future is that of how we in Europe can help make globalisation a real opportunity for social progress in the developing countries.
I have just returned home from China, and let me tell you all that the Chinese are very concerned about the future of Europe. I told those to whom I was talking in China that I too was very concerned. I am concerned if we cannot stand united and work with the aim of making a contribution to the world that can maintain a balance. I am concerned if we cannot stand united in the world in order to fight for social justice and social progress in the developing countries. I am, moreover, concerned on behalf of India, Africa and China and on behalf of all the developing countries if we cannot stand together in order to keep to this objective, for if we cannot maintain the objective of greater social progress and justice, the whole world, including Europe, will lose out. It is therefore crucial to strengthen basic workers’ rights, as agreed by the World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalisation. As draftsman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, I entirely support this conclusion, and I know that my colleague Mr Christensen, who acted as PSE shadow rapporteur in the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, also supports this conclusion.
I have focused on three main issues in my speech. Firstly, we cannot promote greater flexibility without providing our workers and children and women with greater social protection in exchange. Secondly, Europe must not compete in terms of social dumping. Europe must compete in terms of the best and not the worst. Nor should Europe export social dumping. Thirdly, Europe must have a role as the world’s social conscience in relation to development, the environment and employees’ rights. That is something I also know we agree with Mr Christensen about. Tomorrow, I shall report on the views taken of the social growth programme of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament."@en1
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