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"On reading the new report by this House on the benefits of globalisation – ‘benefits’ despite the growing number of unfair practices damaging European businesses, the relocations and unemployment – I thought of the new President of the French Republic.
In his electoral speech on Europe, he spoke of necessary ‘protection’. He even dared to use the term ‘Community preference’!
I do not know what Mr Sarkozy has been doing over the last five years, but he has certainly not been reading the reports by this Parliament, or the records of the Council or the speeches by Mr Mandelson and his predecessor. They never mention ‘preference’, except when it comes to encouraging an even greater liberalisation of our markets. They never mention protection, even though the EU’s trade defence instruments are manifestly inadequate and randomly used. They mention only the pursuit of globalisation and risk management. Yet, the European Union manages absolutely nothing, and especially not the millions of unemployed, the devastated industrial sectors and the near-devastated agricultural sector. In Mr Sarkozy’s eyes, these losses are included among the acceptable risks.
I ask the question: is Mr Sarkozy deceiving his public on these issues, or is he himself being deceived?"@en1
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