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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, all of a month ago, in France and the Netherlands, people voted overwhelmingly against the Constitutional Treaty, with which vote they expressed, above all, their opposition to ‘more of the same thing’, more of the same neo-liberal policies in Europe, and, not least, their opposition to the so-called Stability and Growth Pact.
What has come out of this Pact? Price stability is only one facet of it; it has also brought mass unemployment and an immense increase in poverty in Europe. Rather than growth, it has brought blatant social breakdown; in place of stability, record profits for big business. Mr Lauk, however, in this report, is unmoved by either the social upheavals or the self-evident problems involved in the implementation of the Pact, and continues to sing its praises. Even worse, and absurdly, the report posits a link between working times in Europe and economic crisis, as if the problem would be solved if those still with jobs to go to were to work longer and longer hours, driving themselves to the point of collapse, while more and more people do not even get the chance to make use of their skills!
Those who understand European politics in this way and present it in this light must not be surprised when more and more people turn their backs on them. What the abortive constitutional referenda in France and the Netherlands clearly showed is that most Europeans want something else – new politics, with a social orientation."@en1
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