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"Mr President, Commissioner, today we are talking about Lieja, Jucu, Arcelor, Nokia, and so on. Yesterday it was Renault and Vilvoorde; tomorrow it will be Gijón, Asturias, France, Luxembourg. Commissioner, how much longer are we going to sit doing nothing when the facts point clearly to the de-industrialisation of Europe, when companies seek to maximise profit oblivious to the needs of the people and the regions affected, amidst a crisis of confidence among workers, and a rage that is spreading throughout Europe when we see that those companies can do anything they like without even the most minimal restrictions on their activities?
For years – and not just now, Commissioner – we have been asking for this, as my colleague has said: it is six years since the Cottigny Report. Nothing has been done, Commissioner. Furthermore, in terms of the Globalisation Fund, to which you yourself have referred, we are seeing an attempt to divert it, to use it for other purposes, and even to put an end to the Globalisation Fund itself.
We need a new European strategy to confront these restructurings, Commissioner; we need to relaunch that consultation process that you put an end to, that you were engaging in and stopped as a result of pressure from industry and BusinessEurope. We need to put an end to these delays and to the feeling of resignation we see within the College of Commissioners. I am aware of your efforts, Commissioner, but you need to redouble them, because Europe cannot continue to sit and watch the destruction of its industrial fabric.
We cannot allow the market to be all-powerful while we do nothing. We need to have a common European legal framework that is comprehensive, that put needs first before and after restructurings, that listens to trade unions and workers, and, above all, Commissioner, we need a law of rationality, not the law of the jungle, which is what we Members of the European Parliament are observing impotently, as, I very much fear, you are too."@en1
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