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"en.20120118.5.3-046-000"2
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"Mr President, we have experienced four years now of harsh austerity across Europe and the results are perfectly clear: a downward spiral is being forced on Ireland, Portugal and Greece; millions are now facing misery, with parents in Greece giving up their children because they cannot afford to feed them; and the economy of the EU as a whole faces the potential for a recession in 2012.
Both the Prime Minister and Mr Barroso spoke about growth but, when you read the programme, it is clear that what we have here is business as usual – talking about growth while implementing austerity – and there is obviously a particular emphasis within the programme on the implementation of economic governance. Economic governance pure and simple is a method of institutionalising austerity at the expense of democracy across Europe.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results; and that is precisely what we have here. Is it insanity or is it simply a means of ensuring that the bondholders get their pound of flesh at the expense of working people?
Finally, can I ask about the attitude of the Danish Presidency and the Commission as to the prospect of a referendum in Ireland on the austerity treaty, which goes even further in institutionalising and enshrining austerity? Will you respect the legal and political right of the Irish people to a referendum and to vote freely without a campaign of fear or blackmail?"@en1
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