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"en.20120523.15.3-318-500"2
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"This report proposes increased EU investment in the Chinese market, which it states is blocked because China does not fulfil ‘the criteria of a market economy as defined by the [World Trade Organisation (WTO)]’. Practically the whole report is critical of China’s ‘protectionist’ trade policies. It urges China to open its markets and allow trade liberalisation, subject to WTO rules. Among other things, it criticises Chinese export subsidies, but refrains from doing the same when it comes to the EU. As we said during the debate, this is a vision and path that we unequivocally reject. Obviously, we therefore voted against this report. We cannot gloss over the serious consequences of free trade, neither can we gloss over the fact that the EU’s common trade policy has been an extremely important instrument for the Member States, in particular, those with the weakest economies, in helping them defend their trade interests. The offensive interests of the strongest economies and big business have now been given prominence, making it impossible for the weakest economies to safeguard their interests and weakening their specific productive sectors. With China, like any other country, trade relations should be guided by criteria of complementarity, not by the competitiveness that free trade inspires."@en1
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