Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-05-22-Speech-2-514-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2012-05-22"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:EU and China: unbalanced trade? (debate)2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20120522.21.2-514-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2012-05-22-Speech-2-515-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Niccolò Rinaldi2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; DROI (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; DEVE (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Italia dei Valori - Lista Di Pietro (2009-07-14--2014-04-14)3 vice-chair; ALDE (2012-01-27--2014-06-30)3 member; INTA (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the Cariforum — EU Parliamentary Committee (2010-09-08--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, Ms de Sarnez, ladies and gentlemen, I warmly welcome this report by the vice-chair of the Liberal and Democratic group, a group that believes, perhaps more than others, in trade as a means of spreading well-being and stability worldwide. This is, nevertheless, a report that cuts to the heart of several matters, provocatively at times and without mincing words right from the introduction. There, it clearly states that, on the one hand, China is getting the most from its membership of the World Trade Organisation while, on the other, its economy is not fully recognised as a market economy. It is a slightly anomalous economy, run by the Communist party, with tariff and non-tariff barriers, discrimination in many sectors, subsidies, obstacles of various kinds, bars to participation in public tenders, export credits and much more besides. What is to be done, then, about China, given that it is a country with which we now have considerable economic and trade interpenetration? The first answer from this report is reciprocity, a principle that is seldom practised nowadays and is not easy to enact, but which is the key to this relationship. At the end of the day, is it really that difficult to make it happen? In recent weeks, with several colleagues – Mr Daul, Chair of the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats); Mr Guerrero Salom, Vice-chair of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament; Mr Susta; and Ms Muscardini – we have been working on written statement No 16, with the aim of basing our trade policy on some key concepts: reciprocity, the agreement of environmental and social parameters, transparency, consumer protection, World Trade Organisation rules, and human rights. Tibet has already been mentioned. These are not slogans but values, which – as this report states – if put into practice in our trade relations, represent the best approach not only for sustainable trade, but also for a less extreme and happier China."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(The speaker agreed to take a blue-card question under Rule 149(8))"1
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