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"Mr President, the problems in the European textile industry were foreseeable several years ago and they would not have been an isolated example, given that similar situations exist in the production of other goods, such as footwear, automobiles, steel etc.
Capitalist restructurings in world trade, especially in the textile industry, result in huge profits for large textile export and distribution groups and big business in general. At the same time, thousands of workers are being thrown out into the street of unemployment. According to the official statistics of the European Textile Organisation, 1 million jobs will be lost in the Member States by the end of 2006.
What is all this talk of the invasion of Chinese products into the Member States trying to hide? Obviously it is trying to hide the responsibilities of the European Union and the governments of the Member States, the anti-grass roots policy whose criteria are competitiveness and the profit of big companies, of big business.
The workers need to draw the necessary political conclusions, given that the statistic quoted in the relevant reports is this: that 60% of Chinese exports to the rest of the world come from foreign investments in China. That is why radical changes are needed at the level of the economy and government for fair international trade and grass-roots prosperity."@en1
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