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The policy of restructuring the shipbuilding industry and the resultant cutbacks in it have resulted in tens of thousands of unemployed workers. The loss of half the EU's share of the global market within a mere two years is due to the stand taken by the ΕU and the Member States which, instead of supporting and improving this strategic sector, are supporting and multiplying the profits of the monopolies, mainly in Germany and Denmark.
This once highly developed sector has been especially hard hit in Greece, a country with a long maritime history and one of the largest fleets in the world. The ship repair industry could, with another policy, have become an important sector of the economy rather than all but disappearing.
Small businesses are today being persecuted, while the larger shipyards have been sold off to the private sector for a pottage of lentils and their activities cut back. Thousands of workers in this sector are literally starving and entire areas are being condemned to decline, with unemployment over 80%. Another wooden shipbuilding company, Hippokambos, closed just recently, turning a further 300 workers out into the street.
Those working in this sector are beginning to realise that they cannot wait for answers from the ΕU, its policies and the international imperialist agreements being proposed, which is why they are joining forces and fighting for a different, anti-monopolistic, and anti-imperialist policy."@en1
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