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"I am delighted that the Opel dossier is back on the agenda today, although I note that the European Commission statement contains very little news.
Commissioner, you spoke at length about the informal meetings that have been held based on a summary of a plan, but I did not hear you say anything about a real business plan. You also said you did not have the impression that the plan was based on non-economic considerations; I should like you to tell me what aspects of that plan or dossier you are referring to. You say that the Commission has no control over where the jobs are to be lost. This is true, but you could look into things, you could test criteria in respect of the business plan, you could examine whether they are indeed in line with European restructuring and competition legislation, but we have heard nothing about any of this today.
Yet your colleague, Commissioner Kroes, made us very clear promises in the September plenary. She said that the Commission would never accept taxpayers’ money being used to serve national political interests. When I note that, apart from Mr Belet, no members of the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) are speaking here today – and certainly no German ones – I think this is very telling. The way I see it, Germany has hauled in the loot; but this is very tough on the Antwerp Opel workers."@en1
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