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"Mr President, several months ago we held a debate in this Chamber on the situation at Gdańsk Shipyard. Representatives of all the groups drew attention to the need for effective competition between European shipyards and other shipyards in the world market, especially the Korean shipbuilding industry. They emphasised that closure of two of the three slipways at Gdańsk Shipyard would rule it out of this competition and take away its chance of survival.
We meet in Strasbourg, a city that symbolises European integration. Maintaining this symbol as the headquarters of the European Parliament costs hundreds of millions of euros each year, but we have respect for this symbol. Gdańsk Shipyard is a symbol of the fall of communism and integration between Western Europe and Central and Eastern Europe. It would be worthwhile allowing this symbol to remain a living economic entity, a place of work for thousands of employees. This was the appeal that shipyard workers who demonstrated recently in Brussels were making to the European Commission."@en1
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