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"Mr President, this report claims to promote core labour standards, to improve social governance, and even to create a better framework for globalisation. So exactly how much progress has been made with your social governance here, in the rich and supposedly civilised countries of Europe? Europe is not even capable of giving its citizens the basic right of being able to work and earn a salary to allow them to have a decent standard of living.
In the last few days alone, a long list of redundancy plans has been announced by some of the most powerful companies in the world, including Alcatel, Hewlett Packard and Vivendi, that former future capitalist flagship, which has been ruined by its own financial speculation, and by the erratic workings of your economy.
More to the point, how can you claim that your form of social governance benefits poor countries which are constantly plundered by industrial and financial companies, when you do not do anything to stop these companies doing this? Child labour, which you condemn, exists – as you are well aware – since a number of large corporations practice this through third party sub-contractors, in their factories that have been relocated to poor countries where women and children are horrifically exploited in return for a meagre wage.
In reality, you do not govern very much at all. Those who govern are the large financial corporations, which not only make fun of your recommendations, but go as far as giving you orders. We will not therefore approve this web of hypocrisy and impotence."@en1
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