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"Mr President, Commissioner, here are three debates one after the other in our order of business, in which you are at the heart of the discussion. You have led some of these debates with Commissioner Andor, which is right, as they discuss industrial policy, which is also at the heart of European jobs. However, a key figure is missing from your debate – that is, Commissioner Barnier – because it is evident that, behind several strategies that are at play, it is strategies for financing the economy that lead to the unravelling of the industrial fabric of our regions, and it is also the stitch you will need to knit, if you will permit the expression. I therefore thank you for having taken the initiative of this working group, which is a logical link between the reasoning on raw materials and that on the car industry. What is required is a global strategy that combines the issue of research and development with the issue of quality and jobs. I am always struck by the extent to which Europeans have been mobilised and shocked at the idea that they could no longer control access to rare earths as if it were a strategic issue, rather like what the Americans have sometimes done. Yet when considering the issue of iron and steel, Europeans do not consider it just as strategic for our economies. We allow Mr Mittal to behave simply like a financier and, contrary to everything we have learned in our economics textbooks, rather than create added value, he tries to go up the added value chain by destabilising and destroying production units on the European sites so he can go and buy mines, where he can organise speculation better."@en1
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