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The EU and its forerunners have been born from the desire on the part of major international businesses for one unfettered market with a common currency. As a result, employers’ interests have weighed down heavily on the EU’s management structures and EU policy. For 50 years, there have been calls for more attention to solidarity with those who will never occupy economic positions of power. The trade movement asked for a ‘Social Europe’, and the Council, the Commission and Parliament created the impression that this social Europe was on its way. Three years ago, this ambition was officially abandoned. The 2000 social summit in Lisbon was not about pensions, social benefits, reducing working hours, public investments, strengthening public services and economic stability, but about large-scale privatisations and increasing company profits. This mind-set was expected to result in winning the competitive battle with America and Japan. Unlimited economic growth without redistribution was said to automatically solve all social problems. Social policy is now at risk of being made completely subordinate to economic policy. This policy completely ignores the fact that the crisis in 1929 could only be halted by active government intervention, as advocated by the economist Keynes. Given a declining economy and growing unemployment, the neo-liberal approach is a recipe for certain social disaster. My colleague, Mr Herman Schmid, is right to denounce any future adherence to this approach in employment policy."@en1
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