Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2015-12-16-Speech-3-551-250"
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"en.20151216.35.3-551-250"2
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"I voted in favour of this report, which seeks to develop a sustainable base metals industry in Europe.
People who work in the steel industry are losing their jobs in the UK, including in my region of the West Midlands, and across the EU as the sector confronts its most serious peacetime crisis ever, facing a combination of rising steel prices, social dumping, an influx of cheap Chinese steel and increasing energy costs.
We will not be able to solve this problem on our own – by working together at EU level we can put pressure on the Chinese government over steel dumping, and come up with Europe-wide solutions to these problems. If the existing system of free allowances of carbon emissions fails to address the issue of carbon leakage, we will need to examine the option of a carbon border adjustment mechanism linked to the ETS as a last resort.
Together with colleagues, I will continue to work on this issue and call on the UK Government to take strong and effective action to support the steel industry and combat job losses in the sector."@en1
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