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"Mr President, it is obvious that the United States and the European Union must strengthen their dialogue and their cooperation in the economic, commercial, regulatory or even the social domain by means of the promotion of decent work as trade unions on both sides of the Atlantic wish.
The question, therefore, is not: ‘Should transatlantic relations be improved?’, but ‘How can they be improved?’. From this point of view, I do not think that the answer would necessarily be the creation of a barrier-free transatlantic marketplace by 2015. Are all the barriers to the transatlantic market undesirable? No. Do we want to open up our market to Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) or to beef from cattle raised on hormones? No. Therefore, I want the transatlantic agenda to be based on practical research of general European interest, and not on unconditional commitment to the doctrine of free trade as a goal in itself.
I doubt also whether this is necessarily the right time to propose a bilateral initiative on such a scale when our American partner is threatening global macroeconomic stability by allowing its trade and budget deficits to slide while it is publicly calling into question the merits and principles of multilateralism, or opposing initiatives like the Kyoto Protocol or the International Criminal Tribunal. I should like Mrs Mann’s excellent report to be amended in light of this."@en1
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