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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-05-03"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Stability and convergence programmes2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010503.2.4-026"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-05-03-Speech-4-0272
lpv:speaker	lp:Armonia Bordes2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegations to the parliamentary cooperation committees and delegations for relations with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 member; ECON (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; EUL/NGL (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Lutte ouvrière (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the European Institutions have made budgetary balance a priority, but this phrase, like all the calls for budgetary prudence, serves to conceal the fact that what we are reducing is budgetary expenditure intended for public services and social protection. At the same time, we are not using any of the expenditure for helping large employers in various ways. If the Member States, as well as the European institutions, stopped giving such huge amounts to large employers, the resultant savings would enable public services to be developed and would, at the same time, reduce unemployment through the consequent taking on of staff in public hospitals, transport and public education systems, whilst maintaining a surplus budget. Clearly, however, there is no likelihood of this happening, because the European institutions and the Member States exist to serve the large employers and not the majority of the population. Many items in the report attest to this. When, for example, it dares to express satisfaction with the fact that unemployment has fallen from 9.6% to 8%, this represents around 15 million men and women forced into poverty in a region which happens to be one of the wealthiest in the world. By the same token, the report gives its approval to anything that increases flexibility and competitiveness, especially of labour. It quite clearly acts as the spokesperson for interests of employers alone rather than for the whole of the working population. We shall, of course, be voting against this report."@en1

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