Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-11-14-Speech-1-080"
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"I am sorry for my colleague, however he is going to hear more about the socialist dimension, because that is what we want to see, that the people become the centre of attention. In Malta, my fellow workers are going through disastrous changes. Everyday they face a lack of work, and now, all of a sudden, we had the news that a factory employing eight hundred and fifty people to produce jeans is going to leave to start manufacturing outside the European Union. This means that in a small country like ours, with the thrust of a knife, suddenly we have 0.5% of our workforce losing their jobs in one single day. About two years ago these people had read in brochures that, if we entered the European Union, God willing, we would solve all the problems related to the challenge of globalisation, they promised them what they used to call a 'new spring'. Maybe we were not so popular because we used to tell them the truth, that we had to work everyday in order to be competitive. Now that we are members of the EU, though, we have to see that we put people before profits, that persons come before directives. Some would say that this cannot be done because of our rules; in that case, Commissioner, we have to change the rules."@en1
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