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"Mr President, firstly of course I would like to congratulate you on your appointment as president and at the same time thank you for the interesting exchange of views that we had during the election period. Prime Minister and fellow Members, thank you for your account of the Presidency’s programme. I am convinced that in organisational terms the Swedish Presidency will be a great success and that it will be taken care of truly excellently by the competent Swedish state administration.
Politically, I naturally share the Presidency’s opinion of the two major crises – the economic crisis and the climate crisis – and of course these are the priority issues. However, where is the analysis? The economic crisis and the climate crisis were not predestined by fate. The crises have their origin in political decisions made. This is a positive thing, because it means that we can also solve the crises through political decisions – but I see no sign of a change to different policies from the Presidency. It is the same economic policy that takes no account of social or environmental considerations.
What I and many of our citizens are looking for in the programme is workers’ rights, which have come into focus following the court rulings, and social issues, where no answers are forthcoming. Neither have we heard anything about the famous progressive equality policy. Where the Stockholm Programme is concerned, it is said that it will create security, but in practice what is emerging is a ‘big brother’ state that threatens personal privacy. We can never accept restrictions on asylum rights or restrictions on our rights as free citizens in this programme. We need a humane asylum and immigration policy."@en1
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