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International Trade committee  I have three remarks. First of all, you asked how we can finance or manage social policy. I think you can manage social policy if you have a successful economy. As a social democrat, I would say our free trade policy, our open markets, our openness to the world make up one of the bases for our successful economy.

February 6th, 2007Committee meeting

Mario Fehr

International Trade committee  No, no, okay; but in Switzerland we have a huge budget deficit. In Canada you don't have one, so you have to have quite a successful economy. I think both of our economies could be even more successful if we had a good and fair and long-standing relationship, especially on the economy.

February 6th, 2007Committee meeting

Mario Fehr

International Trade committee  In Switzerland we have no fishery problem because we don't fish a lot. When it comes to agriculture we have a problem because we also have a lot of subsidies. But our government shares the opinion of many of us that we should start to negotiate with the European Free Trade Agreement on agriculture.

February 6th, 2007Committee meeting

Mario Fehr

International Trade committee  I have just a short comment on that. The question of joining the European Union is very controversial in all of our countries. A lot of us are also in favour of joining the European Union, for instance myself, but there is simply no majority within our population. So we have something in common.

February 6th, 2007Committee meeting

Mario Fehr