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"Short selling and credit default swaps are one of the root causes of the present financial crisis. We now know that these are practices that were abused by speculators to the detriment of Member States’ economies. I abstained on this particular report because, even though it proposes certain measures to control these destructive ‘financial instruments’, it is basically inadequate and lacking in political courage and ultimately compromises with financial interests. Guaranteeing stricter regulatory rules and greater transparency in short selling are fairly important steps, but they are not enough. Given the catastrophic role that these financial products and the speculative practices associated with them have played, what we need is to ban them, not simply to regulate them more strictly."@en1
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