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"Mr President, Commissioner, you are familiar with the position of the Group of the Party of European Socialists. Restarting the Doha Development Agenda promptly is in the interests of economic recovery in Europe. Restarting it promptly is in the interests of all parts of the world. We must fulfil our development promises: stop the agricultural subsidies that have shot up and instead use them for the environment, consumers, and agriculture that is beneficial to the developing world. The European trade agenda must be brought closer to the citizen.
The Group of the Party of European Socialists wants to see a higher priority accorded to a citizens’ agenda. This would read as follows: counterforce. Citizens want protection against unfair competition at work: this is a tribute to your efforts against the US in the steel dispute and South Korea’s unfair shipyard aid. Citizens also want respect for nature and the environment, and consumer-friendly agriculture: no animal transports, quality over quantity and respect for nature. They want social power. They do not want any products that have been manufactured by exploiting women or using child labour. They want support for fair trade products and for free trade unions.
Our additional GSP approach would enable extra support for countries that take education, health care and free trade unions seriously, but we would want a multilateral approach to this. As far as we are concerned, that approach would require dropping the Singapore issues: removing them from the single undertaking. Now is the right time to do that. The truth is, however, that many developing countries think that we, like the US, do not genuinely want this. In the field of agriculture, in particular, and with regard to the Singapore issues, the message has not got through clearly. We hope that we shall be generous to the new alliance, that is to say, stop export subsidies for products sensitive to them, open up our markets, and give them help in marketing their products in their own region and on our market.
As you yourself say, we have to be clear about the G-21. We need this new, emerging world power as a multilateral player, but the G-21 must also be aware that, if they make requirements of us, they themselves must also make their contribution. They must guarantee their citizens the right to a free trade-union movement, and put an end to child labour and the exploitation of women. Why should they not be the first to give that new alliance a chance, just as we did with Everything But Arms, and permit their countries to import goods? That would make Lula’s agenda credible.
Europe’s commitment to cheap AIDS drugs has finally borne fruit. This point demonstrates that Europe is not focusing on short-term gain for itself, but on the bigger picture. This approach to the global free market, with fair rules, will make us a great deal more credible. I believe that prompt implementation of this approach in the Member States and the European Union is the right course to follow."@en1
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