Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-06-30-Speech-1-088"
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"Mr President, I want to come back to the remarks made by Mr Harbour. We want to create innovation. Would you agree with me that we will not create innovation by imposing standards on ecological or social issues? This is only the lower level. In a market economy there are factors wish push the market and factors which pull the market: the stick and the carrot.
What we want, when we speak about introducing ecological criteria or fair-trade criteria, is to create a market for innovation in ecology, fair trade and social issues. Therefore we need clear criteria on this in the directive. That is the only thing we need. That is why we are pushing this so much. It has enormous leverage – 15% of the European internal product. If we are serious about sustainability we have to use this. It is not via fierce competition in the private sector that this innovation will come. It will be because the public sector takes more responsibility.
Commissioner Bolkestein, why do we disagree on this point? Because your Europe is a Europe of big multinational companies where there is no ecology, no social rights and where the poor people live in their poor working conditions. My Europe is a Europe of citizens. I am proud of this. If we have to fight over this issue it is because you have a very new, liberal approach to Europe and we do not want that."@en1
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