Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-04-23-Speech-1-064"
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"Mr President, last week in Belgium, the management of General Motors decided to lay off 1 400 of their 4 500 employees working in the factory of its Opel subsidiary in Antwerp by the end of the year. The automobile industry in Belgium is now in dire straits; we all remember last year's redundancies at Volkswagen in Brussels. Unfortunately, while this is going on, the European Union remains on the sidelines, reminding us that the Lisbon Strategy is taking us into an economic nirvana.
As elected members of parliament representing the citizens of Europe, we cannot stand on the sidelines in the face of this social tragedy, whatever our political approach. I therefore call on us to organise ourselves and prepare a motion condemning the mass redundancies and giving impetus to a social Europe which, at the moment, only exists on paper."@en1
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