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"Mr President, this is yet another eulogy to free trade, something all too frequent in this House. Those who usually make them want to convince us that it is only obstacles to free trade, barriers to free trade, that prevent progress and prosperity from holding sway throughout the world. The reality is very different, and the truth is that the liberalisation and deregulation of world trade has led to phenomena such as social and environmental dumping that we cannot ignore here, both because they set workforces from different areas in competition, driving down and forcing a devaluation of the workforce, and because they inevitably lead to unsustainable flows of energy and materials. However, in this case, in the eagerness to demolish each and every barrier, they even want to jeopardise measures that are in the area of public interest, giving a restrictive conception and vision of that same public interest.
I believe that the crisis we are facing demonstrates one thing: basically, we have to question the role now played by the free market and essentially orient international trade towards complementarity and not towards competition between countries, products and producers."@en1
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