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"The MEPs of the Communist Party of Greece voted against the directive on services in the internal market, known as the Bolkenstein directive.
We condemn the disgraceful agreement achieved between the Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats and the Socialist Group in the European Parliament and supported by the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, who voted in favour of the abortive directive on the 'liberalisation of services' at the demand of the UNICE.
The amendments proposed and voted for by the European People's Party, Socialist Group and Liberals strengthened the reactionary character of the directive, given that:
a) they extend the unaccountability of the monopolies in the service sector to choosing as their headquarters countries with an 'attractive business environment' – tax relief, low service standards, cheap, disenfranchised labour, no collective agreements and so forth – so as to maximise their profitability;
b) they strike a heavy blow at public/social services (education, water and waste management, storage of dangerous materials, postal services, cultural services, social welfare services and so forth) which are being privatised and coming under the full control of the monopolies;
c) they jeopardise the fundamental employment and social rights of the working class – collective agreements, insurance and pension rights, the sacred right to strike won by the working class through hard class struggle;
d) they hand the purchase of services over to monopoly capital, with disastrous consequences for small businesses and self-employed people, while leaving the quality and price of services to the voracious appetites of capital for excessive profits."@en1
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