Some of these solutions promised to be quite constraining for the energy intensive industry with important implications for its international competitivity.
This is obviously something which is paradoxical to competitivity.
Sometimes we are not aware that we are eroding competitivity by our own ideas and legislation.
Unfortunately, however, we often applaud the notion of competitivity, while supporting initiatives which erode that very competitivity.
Where on earth does it say that exchange rates should be fixed regardless of whether competitivity decreases or improves?
The exchange rate then reflected our declining competitivity.
We agreed that funding should be available for diversification projects where improvements in competitivity would not be feasible or sustainable.
Given the grass-based nature of our agriculture, the cuts in cereal prices would also affect our competitivity.
