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"en.20120523.15.3-203-000"2
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"Mr President, EU and China: unbalanced trade? It is the first time I have spoken on something that had a question mark, and indeed it is a very big one. We have all heard the predictions, that China becoming the world’s biggest and most dominant economy within the next 20 years is a fact. Of course we tend to use this; it is the latest bogeyman that we talk to our children about. Of course we must heed these warnings and we must fight back.
I use the word ‘fight’ and the terminology of conflict advisedly. We are engaged in a struggle to maintain and improve our current standards of living in Europe and to protect and promote our economic growth. This report calls on China to adopt European standards across areas such as intellectual property, environmental protection and climate change mitigation.
All well and good, but how long is that going to take? We must also create conditions in Europe to take the fight to China. We need to free up business from unnecessary regulation and artificial restrictions, and let the European entrepreneurial spirit shine through."@en1
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