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"en.20120522.15.2-280-000"2
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"This report aims to protect ‘vulnerable consumers’. It attempts to define the category of person concerned, but must, in several areas, turn to the evidence: everyone is affected. This is just one step away from admitting that ‘consumers’ are people and that their interests are not guaranteed by free and unfettered competition. This text obstinately refuses to take this step.
It claims that competition ‘benefits consumers if they are properly informed’. Vulnerability must therefore be the result of a simple lack of information. Whilst, of course, it is necessary to better regulate information for people about the products and services that they use, turning the lack of information into the main cause of vulnerability is a sham. The millions of people plunged into poverty by austerity policies and the deregulation of the labour market have become vulnerable. For them, it is impossible to purchase quality products and services, whether they are informed or not. This text is full of good intentions but reveals an obscene social blindness."@en1
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