Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-05-08-Speech-4-233"
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"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I am backing this report because I am convinced that free trade is a necessary step towards global well-being.
However, our support for any supranational economic agreement has to be dependent on stringent rules committing all parties to ratification of the fundamental ILO conventions, thereby guaranteeing that employees are safeguarded and protected.
As the rapporteur has recalled, ASEAN as a whole is the EU’s fifth largest trading partner. This highlights our many trading interests in that region, which is without doubt a rapidly growing market.
The region’s strong presence, and the absence of effective local employment legislation, obliges us to ensure that the new agreement lays down robust rules not only of an economic nature but also, above all, as concerns employment, the environment and human rights, thereby limiting the effect of social dumping.
Product safety and the protection of employees and the environment cannot and must not be jeopardised by any kind of purely economic agreement.
All of us, united by identical values, have a moral and institutional duty to find the courage to be much more rigorous and selective in choosing our trading partners: all of our partners must provide Europe with guarantees that they set an example to other peoples around the world."@en1
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