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"Mr President, according to the Commission, the new Association Agreement between Chile and the European Union is the most ambitious, most innovative, most far-reaching agreement ever negotiated with a non-candidate country. Classed as a fourth-generation agreement, it should even, we are told, constitute a model for future association agreements with the other Latin American countries. These grandiose perspectives are, however, more cause for concern than for celebration. In the economic domain, the agreement provides for the total removal of customs borders, but, contrary to what free-trade extremists claim, borders are not a barrier to trade. Quite the opposite. They play a role similar to locks in a waterways system, allowing regularisation between countries with differing standards of living. Many of our industries have already paid the cost of customs disarmament. The World Trade Organisation agreements, accepted by Brussels, thus forced them to delocalise production in order to counter competition. Enlargement to the East, which has been decided in haste, will aggravate this phenomenon. The fourth-generation agreement extended to all of Latin America will make millions more men and women unemployed. As for our last remaining farmers, there is little chance that those who survive enlargement to the East will survive the process of opening up to the West, because the agreement stipulates almost total liberalisation of agricultural imports over the next ten years. In the political domain, it is common to wax lyrical about the creation of a transatlantic Euro-Latin-American assembly. Having built a bureaucratic super-State in Brussels, having swallowed up an Eastern Europe that has only just escaped the Soviet empire, the Euro-federalists are still not satisfied. When and where will they stop? In a kind of political gluttony, they want to integrate into their economic plans not only Turkey and Asia minor but the whole of Latin America as well. Of course, there is still natural solidarity between our nations and those of Latin America. Just as we want a Europe of free nations, however, rather than an antinational, antisocial Europe, we want the nations of Europe to base their cooperation with the nations of Latin America on the principle of national sovereignty and economic realism."@en1

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