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"Madam President, 2016 has been a destructive year and there are more challenges ahead for us in 2017. For those of us who are committed to the European project, these disruptions or challenges should and can provide the opportunity to engage more with other nations and with other economies and to pursue with ambition the completion of EU-negotiated trade agreements. Free trade does not mean a diminution of the EU standards that have been built up over so many years, protecting welfare, health and safety, social rights and entitlements, consumer rights, the right to do business, the right to trade and the need to protect and enhance our environment. Rather, they can be an enhancer, an enabler and a bridge builder. If the EU is to meet the expectations of its citizens it must make full use of the enormous market potential that is there outside its borders and, in so doing, help to shape and influence global standards, standards that we take so much for granted here and yet that have needed such hard work to develop over so many years, standards that will benefit consumers and businesses who will benefit from trade deals, but also encourage dialogue between people and citizens. Bridge building, not building walls, is where we should be now and it is time for Europe to step up to the plate in this area."@en1
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