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While stressing the importance of respecting the provisions of the Stability Pact and stepping up the reforms adopted in Lisbon, the García-Margallo report remains deaf to the criticisms and strong disagreements that are being heard increasingly loudly from public opinion. It remains blind to the increase in unemployment, mass redundancies and sudden closures of companies. What crime have the employees of Metaleurope committed? What sort of ‘stability’ are we talking about when lives are shattered for the sake of being ‘consistent with monetary policy’? We always hear the same old thing: liberalisation of the markets requires sacrifices!
Instead of this, I would have liked the EU to aim for a genuine pact for employment and growth, based on satisfying the needs of the people, increasing salaries, a real policy to create jobs and wealth.
I can therefore only oppose the report’s approach of ‘not calling into question macro-economic stability’, which means that employers receive public funds and can shut companies down, without being accountable for it. I cannot support the invitation to ‘further liberalise services of general interest (...) namely postal services, telecommunications, gas and electricity, rail and air transport, and broadcasting’."@en1
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