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"Mr President, as is the case every year, Parliament debates trade relations with China and, as is the case every year, we are overwhelmed with what we find. China does not respect its international commitments, any more this year than it did last year. It exercises large-scale dumping in all areas, it makes a mockery of intellectual property as it does the concept of first dollar, it seizes raw materials from developing countries, it heavily subsidises its businesses and exports.
Being weak in the face of such behaviour has resulted in the deindustrialisation of Europe, companies relocating, millions of jobs being lost and our markets being flooded with poor quality goods.
China should not have entered the World Trade Organisation (WTO), and the European Commission seemed to be more concerned with implementing free-trade dogmas rather than ensuring the full employment of Europeans. We will never compete with a country where most workers earn less than EUR 70 per month. We will never win if years of effort to increase the competitiveness of our businesses are ruined in a matter of hours by the speculative rise of the Reichsmark, sorry, I mean the euro! I feel sorry for Ms de Sarnez, because everything that she is proposing – usually emergency and common sense measures – will only ever be a stopgap. For as long as we stay in a globalised, finance-driven, ultra-liberal system, we will only be able to reindustrialise our countries sheltered by the sensible and intelligent protection of our economies, by promoting and implementing a strong national and European preference that demands, for all our imports, the same respect for social and environmental standards that we impose on our own producers."@en1
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