Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-03-10-Speech-1-075"
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"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, the service sector is far and away the most important sector in the European economy. The European Union is the biggest exporter of commercial services in the world, accounting for 26% of worldwide trade in services, as opposed to 22% in the United States and 7% in Japan. The trade in services in the European Union therefore accounts for more than two-thirds of our gross foreign product and jobs. So trade in services far exceeds trade in goods. Further liberalisation also benefits developing countries, because trade in services promotes the infrastructure, such as telecommunications, and also the financial infrastructure for the trade in goods. Thus GATS also contributes to the Doha round. In my view we must therefore stand four-square behind liberalisation and in particular avoid focusing too much on the exceptions that some of the Member States want to implement. The most important sectors are the transport, tourism, financial and telecommunications service sectors. Audio-visual services form a relatively small part of the offer. It is therefore ridiculous that Member States who do not want this are denying this Parliament any say because they are afraid of changes to the audio-visual sector. I therefore support my colleague Mr Nicholas Clegg’s plea for change during the Convention."@en1
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