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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, what are we dealing with here? We are dealing with an issue which concerns fair trade. This is not about protectionism for European products. There is one issue, and one issue alone, at stake, namely ensuring that our trade relations are based on fairness. I therefore believe that the threat scenario that China is now creating is completely inappropriate. Let me make it very clear: we want transparency in the investigations, and we do not welcome attempts by China to obstruct these investigations by creating threat scenarios, in which European companies are put under pressure with the threat of countermeasures that are supposedly in the pipeline. No, that is not part of the discussion! We intend to investigate the matter. In reality, however, it is about the following issue. Under what kind of working conditions are the solar panels produced in China? Which direct and indirect subsidies go towards supporting their production? What about the value chain as a whole? There are many different aspects which need to be investigated very carefully.
There is undoubtedly overcapacity. We cannot have a situation in which dumping is used to reduce overcapacity, at the expense of European jobs and industry. That is why we need to achieve transparency here. Hence my question, and this is also addressed to the Commission: does this transparency exist on the Chinese side as well? Does the Commission have the opportunity to look at all of the relevant facts? That should have been China’s immediate reaction: instead of making threatening gestures, it should have created transparency. Secondly, are you willing to pursue this process to the end, even if China were to yield at the last moment? We do not want a situation like the ethanol case with the United States, when the procedure was shelved at the last minute! I urge you to pursue it right to the end."@en1
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