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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-05-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:A new impetus for European Youth2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020513.9.1-106"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-05-13-Speech-1-1072
lpv:speaker	lp:Konstantinos Alyssandrakis2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3,3 member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3,3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Cyprus Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3,3 member; EUL/NGL (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 unknown; Kommounistiko Komma Elladas (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Hungary Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, young people are the most sensitive group in society and it is therefore only to be expected that crises in the capitalist system will hit them first. Exactly what does a capitalist society have to offer its youth? A society in which everything can be bought and sold. More to the point, what does the policy of the European Union have to offer? An education system which is incapable of passing on basic knowledge, which replaces education with training and which excludes a significant proportion of young people on the basis of class criteria. Non-existent job prospects or, at best, one paltry part-time job after another with long periods of unemployment in between, no social insurance, easy prey for profit-greedy big business. Individualisation and competition instead of collective action and fighting for demands. The sub-culture of television, the sport of hooligans, the fool's paradise of drugs. And when our young people dare to protest, in my country they are more often than not dragged off to court. The Commission's White Paper does indeed identify some of the problems, but it fails to analyse the causes or offer any solutions. It is mainly interested in assimilating young people, in pushing them in directions which cause no ructions in the system but which leave young people with no way out. It promotes the empty European ideal, participation in institutions of the system which young people's experience and intuition have taught them to shun. It even promotes so-called voluntary service as the highest form of social solidarity and entrepreneurship as the antidote to unemployment. It underestimates the serious problem of drugs, on which it takes an almost neutral stance. Clearly it is an attempt to acquit the system and persuade us that there is a way out within it. As far as the Communist Party of Greece is concerned, there is no way out for the young without disputing the foundations of the class system. It is only by fighting for a society that respects people that young people will be able to acquire the wherewithal to make their way in the world."@en1

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