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". The desire to make the granting to certain countries of the generalised system of preferences – that is to say, privileged access to the European market for their exports – dependent on those countries’ complying with the minimal rules of the International Labour Organisation, is a good thing. However, as is usually the case with this type of resolution, I fear that we are still at the stage of pious hopes. Despite the clauses demanding respect for human rights and the basic ‘social’ rights with which the Europe of Brussels peppers its international trade agreements, I do not believe that it has ever punished any violation of these rights or enforced these clauses. It agrees to trade with China and has supported its entry into the WTO, despite what we know about the working conditions in that Communist country, about the existence of Laogai camps and forced labour, about the political repression and lack of freedoms, and even about the systematic violation of the right of ownership, by the large-scale counterfeiting and copying that is practised there. The problem here is one of credibility, and, on this point, Europe has none."@en1

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