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The joint resolution states that “the EU is the main trading partner and the leading investor in the countries of Mercosur”. We should take a further look at these investments. They are directly related to liberal policies of structural adjustments. For example, French companies such as EDF, Suez Lyonnaise or France Telecom have taken advantage of the wave of privatisations of public services in order to enter into these ‘markets’ with the sole aim of making profits. That is translated into redundancies for workers and increases in charges for users. The last straw is that a company such as Edenor in Argentina, the main subsidiary of EDF, is today asking the government to renegotiate its debt as well as an agreement to increase its charges! Privatising profits and nationalising losses, that is what the “Union’s strategic and supportive commitment to the countries of Mercosur in relation to their economic and political integration projects”, which the policy praises, really looks like!
Mass redundancies, insecurity, unemployment, poverty, the dismantling of public services; that is what the IMF policy which the countries of Mercosur have implemented means.
For our part, we reaffirm our complete solidarity with popular movements developing in these countries, Argentina in particular. The first minimal measure Europe could take would be the complete cancellation of the debt of the Mercosur countries. Since none of this appears in the resolution, I have voted against it."@en1
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