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The liberalisation of the textiles market since 1 January of this year has had a profoundly negative impact on Europe’s textiles industry, and in particular on the industry in Portugal.
Although I am an advocate of the virtues of a capitalist economy and the open market, we must understand that if we do not protect the interests of our firms with competitive potential – and in the Portuguese textile industry there are a number of examples of competitive potential – we will soon be seeing a country of consumers that produces nothing; and if you produce nothing, you cannot consume. It is in this context that we must look at the issues surrounding the opening up of the textiles market. If competition is restricted by practices that would be considered illegal in our economy – such as the abuse of workers’ fundamental rights – we cannot turn a blind eye and open the markets up to such competition. If we do not allow this to happen in our market, we cannot allow it to happen when the competition comes from outside. This has been, and will continue to be, my position in defence of both Portuguese and European interests."@en1
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