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"Madam President, I apologise for my ignorance. I am a human rights lawyer with very little expertise on economic issues, so I have two very basic questions.
The first is: is there not a fundamental problem with an economic system in which profit is privatised and the costs and the damages are nationalised and paid by taxpayers, most of whom are poor people – or a lot of them are poor people – who have to pay for the bad decisions of a narrow, rich corporate elite? Is there not something fundamentally wrong with this system, and should we not look at the root causes of all that we are talking about today?
The second question is – we were talking about discrimination in providing public funds geographically or between nations and states – how about sectors? Is it fair that these big corporations get public funds out of taxpayers’ money while small and family entrepreneurs do not? Is this not a fundamental violation of the principle of equal opportunities between economic players in the European Union?"@en1
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