Translation of "Chute sur ou depuis les escaliers " (French → English) :

51. Notes that the European steel industry is working at 50 % capacity and that European steel production has fallen by 25 % since 2008;

AG. whereas the price of Malian cotton has fallen by half in the past year;

According to EU statistics, the number of livestock has fallen by 25% since 1990.

2. Condemns this attempt to solve the difficulties of the USA's uncompetitive steel industry at the expense of European and other steel producers; takes the view that the EU must not bear the costs of the restructuring of the US steel industry, which has been avoided for too long by successive US administrations; points out that the US difficulties reflect this failure to restructure, as well as inadequate RD in steel and the enormous overhang of so-called 'legacy costs' for US steel producers, and that imports, which have fallen by 33% since 1998 - while EU steel imports rose by 18% - are manifestly not the problem;

2. Condemns this unacceptable attempt to solve the difficulties of the USA's uncompetitive steel industry at the expense of European and other steel producers; points out that these difficulties reflect longstanding domestic failures, notably inadequate RD, the structures of the US health and pensions systems, and the failure to face up to the difficult process of restructuring which the EU steel industry has painfully but successfully undergone, and that imports, which have fallen by 33% since 1998, are manifestly not the problem;

Unemployment fell from 9.1 % to 8.4 %, the largest fall in almost ten years.