Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-05-09-Speech-1-111-000"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2011-05-09"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Emergency autonomous trade preferences for Pakistan (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"pt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20110509.19.1-111-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2011-05-09-Speech-1-112-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:João Ferreira2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2009-09-16--2013-02-03)3 unknown; Partido Comunista Português (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; ENVI (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of the Andean Community (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; EUL/NGL (2009-07-14--2012-02-06)3 member; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; PECH (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, with this proposal for a regulation, we are once again faced with a clear and lamentable exercise in Commission hypocrisy. An exercise in hypocrisy which consists of bringing into the sphere of humanitarian aid things whose place is strictly in the sphere of the commercial interests of a few; of business, pure and simple. An exercise in hypocrisy which is using the natural disaster that has befallen Pakistan to bring the longstanding plans of a few big companies in the European Union’s powers to life. Today, the justification is humanitarian aid to Pakistan. Yesterday, it was helping in the fight against terrorism. Yesterday, like today, there is only one true intention: to obtain trade concessions that benefit, above all, the big European importers. That is how it is, however much the Committee on International Trade might want to sugar the pill with toothless safeguards which essentially do not change anything. These trade concessions, as the report itself acknowledges, will harm the European Union’s textile industry, and the countries and regions most dependent on it. This impact is severe in a sector that is already very weakened – hit hard as it was by the liberalisation of world trade – and which is concentrated in regions with high levels of unemployment, poverty and marginalisation, and with low economic diversification. However, it becomes even more serious when these regions are situated in Member States, like Portugal, faced with an extremely serious economic and social crisis, which could shortly be exacerbated by the illegitimate intervention that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and European Union are preparing. I remember that the Portuguese Parliament unanimously adopted a resolution against these trade concessions. There is a need for measures defending the European textiles sector and related jobs. We have seen nothing like that from the Commission."@en1
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