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"We voted in favour of the GUE's amendment because it rejects the whole of the Council's common position on opening the market in postal services to competition. We did not do this solely to show our disapproval of the attitude shown by the Council in refusing to take into account the European Parliament's flimsy amendments. Even if it had been amended or toned down as proposed by Parliament, the scheme would have been unacceptable.
We reject the text as a whole because we are completely opposed to any privatisation of postal services and to any notion of these services being for profit.
In rejecting the Council's text, we reject the overall policy pursued by national governments and the European institutions, a policy to demolish public services, a retrograde policy, harmful both to users of the postal service and to workers in this sector.
We refused to take part in the vote on the amendments because neither the text on the table nor the initiative as a whole are capable of being amended or improved."@en1
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