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The report ‘is concerned about the rising budget deficit, which, after deducting privatisation receipts, could reach 7% of gross domestic product in 2001, and therefore calls on the Czech government to carry out urgently needed reforms to the healthcare and pensions system’ and ‘recalls that budgetary consolidation must not be carried through in such a way as to compromise the mid-term objective of social cohesion in accordance with the European Social Model, in particular the fight against poverty and social exclusion’.
In direct opposition to European ideology, the rapporteur adds, as if in response to pressure from the demonstrations in Prague against the IMF and World Bank summit, that ‘future-oriented public investments are urgently needed for the improvement of social protection, public health and education’...
This schizophrenia will become more and more apparent between the proclamations of good intentions and the ‘liberal’ formulae directed towards mass privatisations and competition. It is proof of the refusal to draw up an effective balance sheet for failed policy and disintegrating formulae.
We demand a moratorium on these policies and criteria for European construction that do not impose methods that are detrimental to standards of living and basic needs. For these reasons, we were unable to vote for this report."@en1
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