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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, it is worth pointing out that we are talking about real people, who are also listening to us and who therefore require practical responses.
A year ago, I took the floor in Parliament to talk about the iron and steel industry and about Terni, an Italian city that was witnessing its own livelihood being threatened by the operations of a multinational. The opinions expressed by this Parliament were very useful. Today, I must come back to this subject by talking about another factory, the Eaton factory, in Piedmont: here, too, the workers are at risk because of the behaviour of a multinational; I should also like to mention Getronix, and others, as we have heard, have talked about Opel.
In all of these cases, as in the case of Terni, we can and must help. We must also intervene so as to prevent all of this from happening again, that is to say, to prevent multinationals – which, I might add, garner profits and even enjoy public funds, including European ones – from using Europe by directly pitting one country against another country, workers against other workers.
We must decide that dumping and relocations need to be combated with specific rules, because they have nothing to do with competition and the market, but actually undermine social cohesion and burden us all with unbearable costs.
In order to combat them, practical responses are required: one of which is to genuinely strengthen European works councils. Granting more powers to workers and trade unions will also help us to build up an idea of what kind of development Europe must have.
Some people regard this speculative market as reliable, believing that there might eventually be a positive net outcome in terms of employment, which in fact there is not; I believe that politics must deal with what needs to be produced in this Europe and that we must therefore take action in this field too.
I believe that those who want to integrate Europe must recognise that the unity, rather than the division, of European workers is a vital asset when it comes to building this united Europe and that it is therefore not dumping, but the upwards harmonisation of rules and rights, that represents a firm commitment for this Parliament."@en1
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