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"Madam President, the concept of globalisation is not new, it was not introduced recently. It started from Rome as ecumenism, last century the communists tried to impose it as internationalisation and, today, globalisation is the answer of capitalism.
I should like to ask anyone in Europe – the tradesman in Cologne, the artisan in Marseille, the farmer in Greece: are they happy with the results of globalisation?
The only people who are happy are the Chinese with 12% growth. What do we get out of it? What is going well in Europe? Countries with a strong economy, such as Germany, are now in deficit. What do we get out of it? Unemployment is increasing and we cannot get it under control. What do we get out of it? Everything comes from China. Is it not true that everything comes from China? Is it not true that we are trying, now that the horse has bolted, to find a way to stop the whole of China coming here? This is the reality. The third countries took our factories and we get their inhabitants.
That is why we have these incidents in France, with those whom Mr Sarkozi called 'scum'; and of course I disagree with the term used by the French Minister for Home Affairs. However, these people do not have work, because the factory where they worked left for North Africa or the Balkans.
So globalisation does not benefit us Europeans, but we are so clever. We took our currency and revalued it against the dollar by 50%. How can we do anything with the euro so high? How will we be able to address globalisation? How can we safeguard viable pensions? Do you know what the average pension is in Greece? It is equal to an MEP's per diem. The EUR 270 which we get here today is more than a Greek farmer gets in a month. Can we safeguard a viable European pension? Can we safeguard work for all Europeans? Can we safeguard cotton, which is in warehouses in Greece, which Europe does not take so that it can take cotton from third countries? Can we safeguard Spanish oil, which Europe does not take so that it can take oil from Tunisia?
This is the reality. What globalisation are we talking about? What are the results? I repeat, what does Europe get out of it? What are we safeguarding for European citizens? We have played the game of the United States of America so that big business can reap the benefits.
The only ones who are happy are Carrefour and Lidl, and how so? By exploiting people. I went to Lidl here in Strasbourg and bought a few things. I bought the same things in my own country three times more expensive. The same product, the same name, the same quantity. How can small retailers survive? How can artisans survive? That is why we are moving towards a shrinking economy, towards a problem which we will have to face. Beware; I do not know if this heedless enlargement of Europe will be its downfall, but its biggest problem will be the economy. Globalisation will seriously damage the future of Europe.
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