- (EN) Monsieur le Président, si le commissaire Mandelson était venu dans cet hémicycle en février pour nous dire: «Je vais maintenant appliquer les clauses de sauvegarde de l’accord textile», il aurait été très populaire.
– Mr President, if Commissioner Mandelson had come to this Chamber in February and said ‘I am now going to implement the safeguard clauses in the textile agreement’ he would have been a very popular man; he would have won lots of applause in the House, but he would also have been very wrong.
