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"Mr President, I wish firstly to thank the Commission for not, as it happened, allowing things to go completely wrong. If EU industry is to have a chance in the future, it will not be heavy industry that holds its own but industry that is leanest, most environmentally sound and most knowledge-intensive and that also goes easy on resources. What we have witnessed in this case has, in fact, been quite shocking. It is specifically the old-fashioned heavy industries that have tried to do others serious damage by invoking state protection in accordance with the most repellent traditions of the rich OECD countries whose desire has been to protect their own markets but force poor countries to open up theirs. As a rule, the result has been twice as much harm caused to the poor.
The fact is, the rich countries must open themselves up and also pin their hopes on renewal. It was of course in order to guarantee this whole process that ten years were spent on developing the Multifibre Agreement. There are, in actual fact, countries that have taken these matters seriously and that have managed to adapt, and without job losses. Going back on the agreements would penalise those countries, for they cannot possibly compete successfully with government-protected sunset industries. This is of course exactly the same as what is happening within the chemical industry, where another ‘Chemical Ali’, backed by governments, is coming along and trying to destroy modern industries. We must hope that the industry we obtain is one that can hold its own, even if the poor countries get their act together, and we must do everything we can to help the poor countries thrive. That is not something I can go into here – there is not time to do so – but that is what the aim must be, rather than that of isolating ourselves again to the detriment of everyone concerned."@en1
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