Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-11-30-Speech-3-055"
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"Madam President, the EU has been pursuing an unfair trade policy for many years. It is time we paid attention to the needs of developing countries and discontinued our selfish trade policy. If we listened, we would hear their calls for an immediate stop to export subsidies. We would hear them saying that our agricultural reforms are minor and that they think we are wrong to impose requirements for opening up trade in services.
What the Commissioner calls ‘some sectors’ are actually 93 out of 163 sectors required compulsorily to open up their markets. What kind of benchmarking is that? Which bench are we planning to use to push these countries into the swamp of poverty? I do not even understand how the word ‘benchmarking’ is being used in this context. Give them a chance at self-determination. It is right that they be given scope to devise their own policies. It is high time we stopped demanding measures in return and instead started giving, and so I would appeal to Commissioner Mandelson to summon up his best Christmas spirit in Hong Kong and take pleasure in giving without making it conditional on receiving something in return."@en1
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