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The future of the Ascoval steelworks is once again causing concern. While the site of Saint-Saulve, in the North, was just bought by British Steel, the British steelmaker was placed Wednesday in liquidation. "If it is necessary, it is necessary to nationalize, it is necessary both to restore real economic protections and that the State intervenes whenever it is necessary, in an ad hoc way, to save an industrial site", said Nicolas Bay , RN candidate for European, at the microphone of Sonia Mabrouk.
"In the name of the principle of undistorted competition, the European treaties prohibit state intervention in the economic field," said the outgoing MEP. The government has tried to reassure employees of the steel, ensuring that the liquidation procedure does not include the site formerly Ascoval.
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"The European Union is not able to put in place protections"
"It is very worrying, an industrial site is threatening to be closed and hundreds of employees are at risk of being left behind, we are not able to put in place safeguards to prevent unfair competition, nor at the national level nor at the European level, all the major powers in the world, the United States, Russia and China, protect their economies, "criticized Nicolas Bay.
"The promise of the European Union was to replace national protections with European protections, but the EU has removed all protections and is moving further towards free trade and lowering tariff barriers. We have a social and environmental dumping with products manufactured at the other end of the world that do not respect any of our social or environmental standards ", concluded the candidate to the Europeans.