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"Mr President, today, Parliament has finally recognised the serious problems that China causes to the internal market: unfair competition, counterfeiting and relocation, to name a few.
China undoubtedly bears primary responsibility for the decline of European industrial policy. Suffocated by the invasion of cheap Asian products, our companies are cut out of the market. The result is that those that can, relocate, probably to China itself; those who cannot, close down.
We must stop talking and start acting. We must combat this phenomenon, for the price of failure is too high in economic and, above all, social terms. China is growing, with a GDP of 8%, exploiting its workers and producing in an unregulated fashion; meanwhile, in Europe, as many as 23 million people are now out of work, and tens of thousands more can expect to lose their jobs. Where I come from, the Veneto region, in the first few months of 2012, companies like Safilo, Redi and Ditec decided to relocate, leaving thousands of employees without work.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is very much in the interest of many Member States, driven by the dark forces of finance, to pretend not to understand the consequences of this unbalanced kind of trade for the European economy. Those of us who represent European citizens must put people first and safeguard jobs, through protected designations of origin, by fighting counterfeiting and relocation, and by imposing duty. That is the only way to give Europe’s market back to its citizens."@en1
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