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". Mr President, Commissioner, you mentioned CARS 2020. That can of course at the very most be just the beginning of an answer to the problems in the motor industry. Yes, we must invest in advanced technologies and in clean vehicles. Yes, improved market conditions and financial stimuli are necessary for the environment. Yes, better market access is necessary. Yes, training of older and younger workers is necessary and the European Social Fund must be used, but all of that is naturally not a response to the specific social disasters that the employees of Ford Genk, the staff in Southampton and the workers in Rennes are now facing. The reality is that the car giants set Member States against each other on the principle that ‘one man’s meat is another man’s poison’. The reality is that ordinary employees are laid off or are forced to sacrifice pay while CEOs are richly rewarded with salaries and bonuses in the millions. The reality is that when a company closure is announced, share prices rise. The reality is that the car giants invest far too little in innovation, people and the environment. Commissioner, you have mentioned a whole toolbox of possible measures, but you have actually been really vague. Can you say specifically here that in all the regions affected you will support very specific initiatives that will lead to a change? Can you promise that you and your departments will do everything possible to assure the tens of thousands of employees at Ford, PSA and Volvo, who will probably soon be unemployed, that they will once again have some sort of job prospects thanks to political action being taken? That is my very specific question."@en1
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