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I welcome this timely report on the challenges posed by globalisation to the internal market of the European Union. This is an issue whose importance was emphasised on 27 October 2005 by the Heads of State and Government of the European Union at the UK Presidency's informal summit at Hampton Court.
As a member of the International Trade Committee I have been pressing for social and environmental concerns to be taken into account in an era of globalisation and against the background of the rise of China, India and Brazil. This is not simple protectionism: my concerns arise from the need to ensure that liberalisation of the world economy, particularly through the multilateral trading system, should not lead to a lowering of employment and social standards or a race to the bottom.
Whilst I therefore supported amendments to increase preferential access to the EU market for those third countries which have ratified and appropriately applied core international labour and environmental standards as an added incentive, I believe that the Commission should work more closely with the ILO to investigate and inform itself of the observance and enforcement of these core standards in practice, so as to safeguard against future abuses of the new GSP+ system."@en1
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