Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-04-13-Speech-3-375"

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dcterms:Date	"2005-04-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Fiscal and environmental dumping2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20050413.23.3-375"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-04-13-Speech-3-3762
lpv:speaker	lp:Holger Krahmer2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; REGI (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Freie Demokratische Partei - Die Liberalen (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; ALDE (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 member; ENVI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, I would like to discuss this question by the Greens and, potentially punishable offences against the WTO apart, to address a couple of questions to its author. Mr Juncker, your question expresses the fear that the removal of barriers to trade might result in tax dumping. In it, you also make reference to subsidies undermining the multilateral trade system. Do you not believe that there is a connection between high taxes and high subsidies? Do you assume that, in a world without tariffs – which are barriers to trade – and the competition to which they give rise, social and environmental standards would invariably and inevitably fall? As you never fail to mention competition in the same breath as words like ‘harmful’ and ‘dumping’, are you afraid of it? What does actually bring prosperity and jobs – the exchange of goods and services in open markets without barriers to trade or, instead, more fragmented markets with high barriers to trade? Do you, like me, take the view that only a competitive national economy is in a position to comply with high environmental standards? If so, should we then not abandon, once and for all, the constant pretence that low taxes and open markets amount to the same thing as low environmental and social standards? I would also be interested to learn what the Commissioner thinks about this."@en1

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