Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-02-16-Speech-3-573-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2011-02-16"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20110216.18.3-573-000"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Gianluca Susta2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee (2009-09-16--2013-03-12)3 member; INTA (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; ECON (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2013-03-12)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America (2009-09-16--2013-03-14)3 unknown; Partito Democratico (2009-07-14--2011-04-27)3 member; S&D (2010-10-06--2013-03-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I think it is wrong to have turned the debate on the Free Trade Agreement with Korea into a stand-off between supposed neo-protectionists and die-hard free-traders. I also think it is wrong for the Commission to have acted more like a service economy development agency than the political government of 500 million Europeans, which should strike a balance between considerations relating to growth on the one hand, and to employment and distribution of wealth on the other. What differentiates us from the United States, which has not yet ratified this agreement – and we know why – and this also applies to relations with Korea, is the very fact that no world economic power exposes its quality – and I stress the word ‘quality’ – manufacturing industry to inevitable dismantling processes, sacrificing it on the altar of financial interests, setting white-collar workers from the City of London against the white-coated workers of modern European factories, which is exactly what Europe does not need in the wake of the crisis. All this, Mr Sturdy, Commissioner, has nothing whatsoever to do with neo-protectionism. Otherwise we would have to include in this category the Spanish, German, Polish, Portuguese, French and Italian Industry Ministers who, in the 10 February edition of reiterated the need to make Community interest central to the work of the European institutions, stating that in this case it definitely could not be protected by the safeguard clause, however worthy it may be. An excellent academic exercise in the field of international trade relations has taken place, but we have failed to act in Europe’s interests. For that reason ..."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(The President cut off the speaker)"1 "Le Monde"1
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