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"en.20120523.15.3-323-000"2
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"When it comes to trade agreements, it is unfortunate that corporate social responsibility, human rights and environmental issues are sometimes used as a smokescreen by parties essentially uninterested in promoting free and open trade. Breaking down barriers to commerce is often the best way of building a road out of poverty and towards wealth for millions of entrepreneurs, small-business owners and the communities in which they live, all around the world. It also helps hard pressed families in our constituencies to have access to more affordable goods.
Of course, we should not ignore serious human rights issues, but expecting a global player like China simply to transpose the European Union’s social model onto itself is short sighted and could be counterproductive. The European Union is in the midst of an economic crisis and is crippled by anaemic growth rates; it needs all the inward investment and trade that it can get. Small businesses, which often have small turnovers but which are the engine rooms of most economies, need less pontificating from out-of-touch bureaucrats and more solutions that will help to develop bilateral global trade flows, and will bring them, and society as a whole, the prosperity they need and deserve."@en1
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