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"Mr President, Commissioner, let us not hesitate to repeat that iron and steel remains a sector of the future. Our workers in this sector have developed real know-how. Steel is the raw material of the manufacturing industries we would all like to re-launch, like the car industry. It is a sector that provides jobs and contributes greatly to structuring the economic fabric and in which major investments have been made, often with the participation of the public sector, in research and development of new iron and steel products with a high added value.
Let us take an enlightening example of the drifts of the large groups. For several years, the ArcelorMittal group has been putting in place, in the Moselle-Luxembourg-Liège iron and steel basin, a strategy of gradual destruction of production capital. What are the foundations of this strategy? The group is shutting down production sites that are still profitable, but plays on competition between these sites to redirect their investments. It rejects the idea of selling the tooling, which still offers good performance, to prevent it being taken over by a potential competitor. We must act.
The Commission is sometimes prompt to defend the rules of fair and healthy competition. Is it not unfair competition to prevent a recovery? Could the Commission not study those cases too?"@en1
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