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"Mr President, I challenge the Commission and the Council to make clear choices. First of all: choose democracy. How does the Council intend to make decisions which will lay down socio-economic policies in Member States for a period of ten years without the voters being able to express their opinions on them during that period, during those ten years? For example, that would mean that an outgoing Dutch Prime Minister would be able to make decisions for ten years, and that is just not acceptable.
Secondly: work has to be paid work. The objective of 75% employment sounds fine, but Europe does not need any more poor workers. How does the Council actually define employment?
Thirdly: choose sound public spending. How can the Commission present a budget for 2011 promising growth of no less than 5.8%, while Europe 2020 places strong emphasis on austerity measures.
Fourthly: choose a social internal market. Do the Commission and the Council agree with the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection which has proposed that the internal market have a more social ethos and that tender procedures focus more on quality and social justice?
Fifthly: choose poverty reduction. As far as poverty reduction is concerned, the Council is aiming only at economic growth. In recent years, economic growth has mainly led to managers being paid top salaries, but the poor are getting ever poorer. What action will you take to ensure that top earners and banks, and not the poor, foot the bill for the crisis, for example?"@en1
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