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"Mr President, last Friday Polish trade union members from the Gdansk shipyard demonstrated in front of the European Commission’s headquarters in Brussels.
In July the European Commission issued an ultimatum, giving Poland one month in which to submit plans to reduce the shipyard’s production capacity. The Commission is calling for the closure of two of the three slipways at Gdansk, if the shipyard is not to be required to return the State aid it has received from the Government of Poland since 1 May 2004. The EU Commissioners claim that the Commission’s intention is to modernise the shipyard, not close it. In fact, such a drastic reduction of production capacity with the closure of two out of the three slipways would make the facility unprofitable. In practical terms, it would result in the loss of a great many jobs and ultimately in the collapse of the shipyard.
The Gdańsk shipyard is not, however, simply an ordinary shipbuilding facility employing a great many workers. It is also one of the most important symbols of the contemporary history of Poland and of our united Europe, namely the birthplace of the
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The European Parliament ought to urge the European Commission to seek an appropriate solution to this situation, one that would give priority to the good of the facility and of its workers. In our role as the voice of European society we should express our solidarity with the shipyard’s workers, and insist on a solution ensuring both the shipyard’s stability and respect for this symbol of the history of contemporary Europe."@en1
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