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"Madam President, it is amazing but also revealing of the paths that this European Union is following, that the main spokespersons for the Council and the Commission have ignored the severe social crisis being experienced by a number of European Union countries, specifically in the euro area. Where are the answers for the nearly 100 million people in poverty in this European Union, including more than 20 million workers on low wages and with insecure jobs, which contributes to the scandalously high profits of big business and finance? Where are the answers for the nearly 25 million unemployed, the majority of whom are women and young people, and to whom a dignified present and the possibility of building a future that could ensure the very development of our countries are denied? Yet again, the sole concern of the Council’s decisions has been the defence of the interests of big business and finance, with greater centralisation of political power in order to facilitate a greater concentration and accumulation of economic power. All of this in order to, in the name of the crisis, call into question social and labour rights, increase the exploitation of those who are working, and exacerbate the dependence of countries with more fragile economies, such as Portugal."@en1
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