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Verbatim report of proceedings
Wednesday, 13 February 2019 - Strasbourg Revised edition

EU-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (A8-0053/2019 - David Martin)
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  Daniel Hannan (ECR). – Mr President, it was almost exactly 200 years ago that an erratic and romantic British colonial officer called Sir Stamford Raffles landed in what’s now Singapore. Its population then was 120 Malays and 30 Chinese. It had zero resources except its natural harbour.

Now there are 5.6 million Singaporeans enjoying the eighth highest per capita GDP in the world. How did they manage that? This is a place with zero resources. They have to import their food, their drinking water, their electricity. What was the magic ingredient that transformed those swampy mangrove trees into the gleaming skyscrapers that we see today? Simply this: unilateral free trade. Singaporeans invited the traffic and commerce of the world unconditionally, without waiting for reciprocity, and they especially did so after 1965, following an acrimonious split with their largest neighbour. It was the moment, as Lee Kuan Yew was to put it, when they plugged into the global economic grid. And that is the opportunity for Britain or any other country in the world: simply remove the obstacles between businesses and their customers.

 
Posljednje ažuriranje: 24. svibnja 2019.Pravna obavijest - Politika zaštite privatnosti