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To ask those who for 60 years have not stopped dismantling the European iron and steel industry what future they envisage for it is like ordering an educational project from Fourniret. These are the same people who, in 2006, in the name of the sacrosanct competition policy, approved Mittal’s hostile takeover bid of Arcelor, harshly criticised anyone who denounced the absence of industrial plans on the part of the Indian billionaire and rejected any national, or even European, strategic vision. The result of your management? Now the great majority of the iron and steel industry is in the hands of non-European multinational firms that give preference to short-term profitability and search for the lowest possible costs, especially in their countries of origin. However, the iron and steel industry is strategic. To apply common Brussels law to it condemns to unacceptable foreign dependence many other industrial sectors that provide millions of jobs, such as the automotive and construction sectors, and symbolises the absence of a European industrial plan. The reaction of France, which asks that strategic multinational companies take into account the concerns of the Member States, is pitiful: as he demonstrated by his first merger-acquisition, Mr Mittal does not care. These multinationals serve only their owners-shareholders. Unless it is a shareholder itself, the state can do nothing. However, those sacrificed in Gandrange, Florange, Dunkirk and, sadly, elsewhere will appreciate it."@en1
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