Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-06-04-Speech-3-160"
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"Mr President, the price increases of all mass-market consumer goods, transport and services combined with low wages and pensions, and drastic cuts in social welfare benefits have inflicted repeated damage on people’s incomes while generating enormous profits for monopoly business groups.
Prices have risen uncontrollably for ordinary working-class families in all Member States. Those who try to blame the high prices on a few bad speculators are deceiving the people. They are hiding the fact that high prices are fuelled by the profits of monopolies, and free market and competition policies, which are at the very basis of the EU itself and its policies that have been shaped and implemented by Member States and their governments. High prices start with the monopoly on production and trade, which is dominated by the business groups plundering people’s incomes, and crushing thousands of small businesses and undertakings.
We call on the workers to step up their struggle for real wage increases, pensions, social welfare benefits, and the abolition of VAT on common consumer goods, services of general interest and fuel, in a bid to reduce the prices of public utilities."@en1
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