Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-03-29-Speech-4-031"
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"Mr President, Mahatma Gandhi, that brave, peaceful and utterly determined father of Indian independence, once walked into the Governor-General’s office during the days of the Raj and accused him to his face of the British being masters in someone else’s house. We Brits now know how he felt, and some of you might even find a smug satisfaction at the very thought.
However, when we see the European Union and its officials throwing their weight about the globe, like Johnny-come-latelies strutting on an ever bigger stage, we know the end-game. We know where such self-appointed self-importance ultimately leads.
I have three questions for you, Mr Solana. Who told the EU it could impose fines on foreign companies with no regard for the consequences on commerce, wealth creation and the protection of jobs in countries that do not even belong to the European Union? Then there is the EU’s economic partnership agreements doing so much damage to real families in Third World countries, and whilst their leaders grow fat on the back of these agreements, local producers and traders struggle to compete with cheap imports. The same applies to the fishermen off the coast of Africa: while local government ministers grow fat, their coastal waters have been decimated by our trawlers, and local fishermen can no longer make a living.
Gandhi was right. The EU has no business posturing as a master in other people’s houses."@en1
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