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"Madam President, today, it is Belgium, France, Romania and Poland. The question is which countries are next. We may condemn one company, Arcelor, but it is obvious that it is also Nokia’s problem. The question is which companies will be next. I am very often told in conversations with various companies and large investors that, ‘We will have to pull our business out of Europe’.
We discussed this subject in the European Parliament five months ago: what can be done in order to prevent the relocation of our companies? Currently, it is becoming a reality. We are talking about this only in the context of the crisis and the drop in steel sales, but maybe we should also think about rising costs. We maintain a climate-oriented policy which is a burden on companies and which will be an even bigger burden if we tighten other criteria. This is exactly the context in which many enterprises declare that it might cost us further relocations. So the question is whether this is the big wave, the beginning, or is it just the end and a few cases, and also how big the loss of jobs will be that is still ahead of us in the future.
The worst thing is that we may lose our industry without achieving our climate goals, because outside Europe, these companies are free to develop their production, polluting the atmosphere and contributing to global warming, while here in Europe we are losing jobs. Moreover, in the future, when the crisis has passed, we will have to import steel and pay extra for transportation and pollute the environment by this transportation. Therefore, it seems to me that we need to take a very hard look at how we are going to achieve the objectives of industrial production while protecting the environment.
The Commission needs to enhance its efforts in order to achieve a global agreement on climate, because that will not promote relocations due to much lower costs than in Europe. At the same time, as has already been mentioned in the discussion, the same question is being asked again and again: what can we do to keep this industry in Europe. Therefore, we must balance the different objectives in order to curb rising unemployment rates in Europe, and this time we do not have to pay extra from the Globalisation Fund, because it is just another expense."@en1
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