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"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I should like to thank our fellow Member, Mr Brejc, for his report. It is timely, with only a few weeks to go until the opening of the WTO Ministerial Meeting in Hong Kong.
The form of globalisation that we know today has always been presented to us as a positive phenomenon that creates wealth. It certainly has its winners but - to plagiarise the former Prime Minister of France - globalisation is a new aristocracy of money and power, which today accumulates profits and relegates a majority of losers to the sidelines. We are not only noticing an increase in the inequalities in North-South relations, but we are also discovering that these inequalities are reflected today in South-South relations and within the very heart of a Western society in which the gap between the richest and the poorest has become dramatically more pronounced over the last few years.
The pursuit of social globalisation has the effect of endangering social rights and creating disgraceful working practices and dangerous imbalances. This new situation forces us no longer to view the world with the same detachment. We have to take note of the fact that this process of liberal, non-transparent and unfettered globalisation is of concern to our fellow citizens.
Yet, who can hold it against them if they are afraid for their jobs, their future, their democracy and the environment of the planet on which they live? No one. For what have we done to respond to these legitimate anxieties? If I were to take the most recent example, that of the last UN Summit in New York, the results were disappointing. They were disappointing in terms both of the concrete commitments made towards the poorest countries and of the reform of the international institutions. Europe has to act in a coherent and credible fashion. Doing so at multilateral level is exemplary behaviour. That is why incorporating strict social and environmental standards into the rules of trade and checking that these standards are upheld in the bilateral agreements we sign, are priorities.
Europe also has to act as an example internally. To do that, it has to improve its model, put in place a system of upwards social harmonisation, put a stop to the dismantling of public services and reject a market Europe. Europe provides an opportunity and a hope. It has to be the main actor in a different form of globalisation."@en1
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