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"I voted against the agreement concerning immediate autonomous trade preferences for Pakistan. The planned removal of import duties on 75 products threatens thousands of jobs in the EU. This applies, in particular, to the textile industry, but also, for example, to the manufacturers of industrial ethanol in Germany. Given the tough economic situation in the EU, these negative consequences of the agreement are not justifiable. The planned agreement is not only dubious from an economic point of view, however; it also fails in terms of the original goal of trade facilitation as a form of emergency aid. As a result of the initial refusal of India to accept the trade agreement in the World Trade Organisation (WTO), the negotiations on the agreement have been long delayed. Two years after the flood disaster, we can no longer talk of short-term emergency aid. It goes without saying that the EU’s relations with Pakistan – which is capable of playing a major role in the security of the region – are of major importance. However, with the approval of over EUR 415 million for emergency humanitarian aid and with the additional provision of EUR 114.8 million through the amendment of ongoing programmes towards rebuilding, the EU has already demonstrated its solidarity with Pakistan. Mixing development aid and economic policy, which would be the effect of this agreement, is disproportionate, given the problems I have described above."@en1
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