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This is yet another resolution in which the Portuguese socialists (PS), social democrats (PSD) and popular right (CDS-PP), using language sprinkled with obfuscations and omissions, reaffirm – together! – their policy options and the EU’s fundamental axes, namely neoliberalism, federalism and militarism.
Not surprisingly, they reaffirm – all together! – the ‘promotion of ‘increased competitiveness’ as its ‘top priority’ – or, to spell it out, capitalist competition; their support for the ‘Lisbon Strategy’ – alongside Europe’s major employers; ‘the improvement of labour markets’ – the cynical name for attacks on workers’ rights; ‘the reform of the pensions scheme’ – in other words its gradual privatisation; ‘the achievement of the single market’ – or to put it more succinctly, the liberalisation of energy, transport and telecommunications, among many others.
It is a package that is ‘nicely’ wrapped up in the language of concern for social issues and of good intentions, a package that seeks to cover up its contradictions and the true nature of the right-wing policy effectively pursued at EU level, with the devastating impact that it has.
The PS, PSD and CDS-PP can try all they like to deflect attention from, or hide, their broad understanding, yet reality is giving the game away. Let us keep that in mind, in Portugal, on 20 February of next year."@en1
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