Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-03-26-Speech-3-025"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2008-03-26"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Results of the European Council (Brussels, 13-14 March 2008) (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"pt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20080326.4.3-025"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2008-03-26-Speech-3-0262
lpv:speaker	lp:Ilda Figueiredo2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3,3 unknown; Coligação Democrática Unitária (PCP-PEV) (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3,3 vice-chair; EUL/NGL (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3,3 substitute; AGRI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3,3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (2007-05-23--2009-07-13)3,3 member; Delegation for relations with Mercosur (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3,3 vice-chair; EMPL (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3,3 member; FEMM (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3,3
lpv:translated text	"While the social situation in various European Union countries is deteriorating, the Council is insisting on extending the application of the neoliberal policies of the Lisbon Strategy and the stability and flexicurity pact, when it knows that this will only worsen the social and territorial inequalities. As a result, the profits and gains of economic and financial groups will clearly remain stable at very high levels, while precarious employment and poor pay will continue to spread. Poverty and social exclusion will be maintained at high levels, as is already the case, affecting in particular tens of millions of women, children and the elderly. However, as we have seen, the Council and the Commission are not particularly concerned about this. For them, a bit of rhetoric is enough, which we can only vehemently oppose. What was really needed was a break with these policies so that the countries with weaker economies can be supported and so that public investment can be increased in order to improve and extend those public services that are essential in the fight against poverty and social exclusion. This would also have helped to create jobs with rights and to develop micro, small and medium-sized enterprises. The financial crisis in the US and the high price of fossil fuels and certain agricultural goods will have particularly serious consequences in terms of poverty and social exclusion and will be felt in those countries with weaker economies. It is therefore absolutely imperative that these policies are changed so that we can prevent their consequences in the European Union, avoid worsening the social situation and respond to the concerns of the population. As a result, we need to break away from the neoliberal policies of the Lisbon Strategy, the Stability Pact, the high interest rates of the European Central Bank and the support for the agricultural production of biofuels when food products are scarce. We need to adopt alternative policies."@en1

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