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"This report cannot be dissociated from the specific conditions in which the European integration process is taking place, its nature, its fundamental characteristics, and its objectives. The debate on this issue in the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection – which is responsible for the subject matter – is enlightening as regards its intention: to primarily clear the way to a market worth around 17% of overall EU gross domestic product for large European companies – the public procurement market. All the rest is not enough to hide that intention, including all the rhetoric about the social and environmental principles to take into account in public procurement.
While it is true that public procurement should fully take into account these principles of maximising social wellbeing and protecting the environment – if we are talking about the use of public money, pursuit of the common good should certainly be of paramount importance – we cannot be unaware, as we stated in the debate in plenary, that the prospect of trade opening set out in this report is not the best way to ensure observance of these principles. The suggestion and challenge that we set in motion during the debate remain: to give preference to national companies in public procurement, particularly in the Member States currently facing the greatest difficulties."@en1
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