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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, allow me to share with you my concerns as an MEP from a new Member State. Especially before accession, we saw the Stability Pact as a powerful and comprehensible symbol of Europe’s stability, and this was not because of its name, but thanks to its contents. It was the symbolic custodian of a healthy economy and of reliable rules and justice, for everyone and without exception.
I say ‘was’, because today this is no longer the case. It is a symbol which needs rehabilitating. Budgetary discipline is a political risk today for governments which have embarked on public finance reform, and yet it is of crucial importance for the stability of the entire European Union. Flexible interpretations and relativisation of the Pact are a stab in the back for these courageous governments. It is not flexible interpretations of the rules which citizens and businesses expect, but a flexible EU trade policy.
I would like to draw the Commission’s attention to the threat posed to the EU’s internal market by the dishonest trading practices of third countries. These mean that it is important for the Commission to open negotiations with the WTO on import quotas, in particular with regard to imports from China, which disregards the social and environmental regulations of our market. A threat to three million jobs in the textile industry and women’s unemployment are at stake, which means a threat to employment stability as of January of next year. A flexible trade policy and reliable rules are conducive to stability.
I welcome the Commission’s efforts to increase the transparency of rules, I believe that it will open negotiations with the WTO, and I am keeping my fingers crossed for it."@en1
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