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"Madam President, the report by our fellow member from the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats, Mr Caspary, takes a near caricatural approach to stating the benefits of globalisation and of the European Union's trade policy.
Indeed, it sees only advantages to it: the opening up of markets, in particular public procurement markets, increased competition, the benefits of competition and worldwide free trade, but with a slight dampener where intellectual property rights are concerned.
In contrast, protectionism is condemned irrevocably, and customs duties are held up to public obloquy as intolerable insults to the Trade god. Faced with the all-powerful ultraliberals of the European Parliament and of the Commission, it will be interesting to see what Mr Sarkozy’s government is going to do to protect our businesses, in particular, our SMEs-SMIs, our agriculture and our public services.
With Europe already being the world’s most open economic unit, it is paradoxical to want to go further, unless we want to sacrifice our agriculture and our industry on purpose, and once and for all. And yet, that is what the Europe of Brussels is doing, in the name of competition and of the pro-free trade dogma and in order to satisfy our US allies. Under these circumstances, with no trade protection worthy of the name, with no effective instruments of protection and with no European officials who are independent of the Anglo-Saxon lobbies, what can Europe do to prevent businesses from relocating and skilled workers and capital from going abroad? It can rely on thousand-year-old nations, and not on the ultra-European mirage defended by Mr Caspary, one that guarantees serious disillusionment for Europeans."@en1
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