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"The Randzio-Plath report notes that employment prospects have deteriorated in 2003, but puts forward lazy and repetitive explanations. According to the report, if there has been a decline in the growth rate, it is due to structural reforms and, if we are moving away from full employment, it is due to delays in the implementation of the Lisbon strategy. In my view, the opposite has happened. The current slump is the result of salary reductions and the cutback in public spending. It is, however, also the result of stifling interest rate control. The report pursues a profitless line by calling on Member States to favour industrial competitiveness over needs, and to eliminate tax obstacles by doing without the means to balance public finances in the form of a tax on investment income. Such misguided stubbornness turns its back on the perennial objectives of skill and effort in research and development, which the report otherwise promotes.
It is discouraging to see to what extent this neo-liberal ideology is unchanging. The same report could have been written two years ago, and the next one will be similar. This is why I again voted against this recital of absurd dogmas that lead, across Europe, to unemployment and inequalities."@en1
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