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"Mr President, the workers in the countries of the European Union oppose the capitalist restructurings which result in a reduced standard of living and increased unemployment. They denounce the commercialisation of health and education and the cutbacks in the remaining public utilities and their privatisation. They oppose and are fighting the new, worse, insurance systems. They are calling – and rightly so – for the Stability Pact, the tool and alibi for anti-grass roots objectives, to be abolished.
The reform of the Stability Pact by the European Council on 22 and 23 March was put forward as a relaxing of criteria. Under no circumstances, however, is it a relaxing of anti-grass roots policy; it is another burden on grass-roots incomes for the benefit of big business. That is why the workers should have no delusions or room for expectations.
Unfortunately, today's report does not move in the right direction either. Not only is it indifferent to the trials of the workers, but it also calls for even more unfavourable terms for the application of multilateral supervision and even for a Community fraud squad to undertake financial auditing missions. It calls on the central banks to act as guardian of statistics and sets deadlines for adjusting to the Pact, in which recommendations are made about excessive deficits and debt, as in the case of Greece.
In Greece, the government has used deficits and financial prudence in order to unleash a series of anti-grass roots austerity measures and programmes, thereby guaranteeing even more poverty for the people.
It would appear that the referenda in France and the Netherlands have been ignored. It is as if they never took place and they can carry on as before. However, the referenda returned a resounding ‘no’
and were a real expression of insubordination and disobedience to the commands and policy of the European Union and the political forces which support it, and that is promising."@en1
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