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"Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I feel ashamed. While enterprises are closing and workers being made redundant, you come here and tell us we are the most open market in the world and that this investigation will issue its findings in nine months. Somebody here seems to have forgotten why he is being paid a salary by the European taxpayers. If Mr De Gucht says that the trade war is not China’s fault, that is nonetheless an indication that someone has declared war.
We can hardly argue with the fact that many enterprises are closing and laying off their workers, or is this not the case in Brussels? Instead of MEPs, I would like to see here today those workers who have lost their jobs and those businesspeople who have seen 30 or 40 or 50 years of work go up smoke for reasons that are obvious to us all. Does anyone here really doubt that China engages in unfair trade, exploits workers, illegally subsidises its enterprises and ignores environmental issues? Does anyone have any questions that cannot be resolved in nine days rather than nine months?
I am ashamed to represent a Europe that by the end of this investigation will have no photovoltaic industry left. For some people, the words ‘import duty’ are taboo. Well then certain people should either impose import duties to get things done, or otherwise resign, because nine months is too long to spend investigating the obvious."@en1
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