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"That is not an unexpected answer from Mr Monti. However, he and his colleagues should understand that every time one of these mergers takes place we are going to carry on asking the question. Mr Patten, sitting alongside him, must have been squirming when he heard that answer, because in the previous question we heard a great lecture on respect for human rights. Then suddenly when it comes to the European Union's economic powers, they are blithely ignored.
Let me say about Texaco that the Centre for Economic and Social Rights says that in Ecuador they are responsible for a high occurrence of abortion and abnormally high cancer rates. They have been accused by Ecuador's own national oil company of dominating indigenous peoples. In Nigeria, Chevron has been accused by the All-Ijaw indigenous people of instigating violence against them and actually paying Nigerian soldiers to shoot protesters at the Warri naval base.
Whatever you say about the legal base and concern over competition policy, the public in Europe is concerned about such abuses of human rights. If you are not willing to act now, I suggest that you signpost how other action could be taken by your colleagues in the Commission against abuses of human rights which are unacceptable to all of us."@en1
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