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"Madam President, Nokia’s relocation from Romania will leave thousands of people without jobs and hit the domestic economy hard at a difficult time. Unfortunately, after experiencing three years of Nokia in our country, the company’s slogan could become ‘Disconnecting People’, as was suggested by a newspaper in Finland. This was obviously a specific developing country-type investment, similar to the attempt that is also currently being made in the case of Roşia Montană to launch gold mining using cyanide technologies. The dishonest pursuit of profit only serves to exacerbate the precarious situation of the majority of people, national chauvinism and scepticism.
Nokia took full advantage of the facilities generously offered by the Romanian authorities, benefiting from the handouts without meeting their obligations. Now they have decided, in an unprecedented cynical manner, to shut down. While trade unionists from Bochum in Germany have received compensation amounting to 60 minimum salaries, Romanian employees are only being offered three salaries in compensation, and their chances of reintegration into the labour market are virtually non-existent in the current economic climate. This is why I am calling for the European Commission to get involved without delay so as to ensure that the staff made redundant are treated decently, with the aim of supporting their professional retraining.
In addition, the sharp fall in transactions on the steel market and in the price of steel is about to cause new restructuring in the steel industry. There is the risk that 10 years after privatisation, the almost 9 000 Romanian employees at the ArcelorMittal plant in Galaţi will be affected. A common strategy is needed for all the decision-making phases in order to maintain production capacity and ensure genuine protection for the workers’ interests.
Faced with the prospect of a rise in unemployment, I think that the European Commission’s priority must be, first and foremost, to preserve jobs rather than checks on electricity tariffs, which will help preserve the production units.
We need a fair order of priorities, and jobs must take precedence over other considerations relating to energy market agreements."@en1
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