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"Mr President, this Free Trade Agreement is the first to have been examined since the Treaty of Lisbon came into force and that is why we MEPs believe that it really cannot come into force until we have obtained robust guarantees, guarantees that must, furthermore, act as a model for future trade agreements. It will therefore be up to us – to you and to us – to ensure the proper implementation of these mechanisms in order to protect the European economy in the event of distortions of competition.
However, that should not in any case exonerate us from strategic thinking in two areas. Firstly, in order to guarantee that competition is genuinely fair, it is essential for social, health and environmental standards to be taken into account in trade agreements. That is an essential requirement.
My second point is that Europe must finally provide itself with the instruments necessary to retain or recover production capacity, for example industrial or agricultural production capacity, and to retain – and this is absolutely vital for its future – its technological progress."@en1
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