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"en.20020228.4.4-079"2
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"In March 2000, the Lisbon Summit took a thoughtless decision. The justified ambition to achieve social security for everyone was not translated into a fairer distribution of existing work by means of a general cut in working hours, early retirement and an increase in public services, but into a desire to achieve yet more economic growth for private businesses instead. This growth and the competition with the two other economic superpowers means that existing public services in the field of public transport, energy supply, postal services and telecommunications, again have to be taken over by large international concerns. This is a disastrous route because it makes our people dependent on competition, and as soon as Europe loses this competitive battle, it will plunge our continent into a deep economic crisis. Moreover, privatisation leads to our democratically elected parliamentarians having less say and to pressure being exerted to save on labour costs. This is why the idea of a ‘social Europe’, as backed by some advocates of the Lisbon decisions, will not get off the ground; a ‘Europe of capital’ will emerge instead. Unfortunately, the Bullman report continues on this wrong path of confusing ‘social’ with ‘capital’ but, according to the Right, this is not yet taking things far enough. This is, for me, a reason to vote against."@en1
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