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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, among the top 500 listed companies in the world, the European ones are distinctive for being behind the times, unlike those in the US and emerging countries. There is no easy finance available, especially for SMEs, given that it is only the people’s banks which will lend to SMEs; they should be supported rather than obstructed.
Furthermore, while we are speaking here in this House, the Speaker of the Tibetan Parliament-in-exile is announcing - underscoring - the massacres which are taking place as we speak here in our peaceful Europe. In Tibet, where a people is being slaughtered, your wise words on attendance at the Olympic Games will come across as worthy and courageous, Mr President. Mr Solana, on the other hand, tells us that he will go. I should like to know whom he will be representing: the Europe of the banks, the Europe of business and trade; not the people’s Europe.
We in Padania are with the Tibetan people who are fighting for their freedom, for their right to self-determination, a right sanctioned by the UN Charter on human rights and also by the EU."@en1
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