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"en.20120612.15.2-126-000"2
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"Mr President, this report strikes me as containing numerous sound ideas. It is a fundamentally attractive idea to want to fight poverty in the world, not least in Latin America. All the initiatives listed are naturally of an attractive nature. When reading the report, however, I cannot help but wonder when the shoe will be on the other foot and it will be Latin America giving the EU advice on how to fight poverty.
Over the last ten years, the Mercosur area, the whole of Latin America, has demonstrated a fantastic ability to create growth and development, fight poverty and so on. Over the same period, we in Europe have seen long-term and youth unemployment grow and the recession spread.
The report states that free trade is the way forward. I agree. Maybe we should consider the same thing here in Europe. We could strip away all the over-regulation, the over-bureaucratisation of the European continent. We could abandon the strained ideological struggle to cling on to the existence of the euro irrespective of the fact that it creates poverty out in the real world. I believe that the day is very close at hand when the Latin Americans will be the ones giving Europe the advice."@en1
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