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"The European Semester, whose praises the right and social democrats sing, has been brought in ‘to coordinate economic policies’. Something that is ‘fundamental’ at this time of crisis in the EU, or so they say. Virtually everyone speaks of ‘coordination’ as an end in itself. They are concealing the nub of the matter: coordination around what and through what means? The Commission needs to provide an answer. As regards the ends, the recommendations for Portugal are crystal-clear: decrease salaries (in the country that has the lowest salaries in the EU); reduce the length of time unemployment benefit can be claimed (when unemployment is reaching historic levels and when long-term unemployment is on the up); more measures aimed at making labour relations ‘more flexible’ (read: raising the levels of exploitation to where they stood in the 19th Century). As for the means, we already know what they are: shrink national parliaments – the power structures closest to citizens and the ones they can best keep tabs on – to merely making up the numbers, puppets of the European institutions, having to submit their budget choices to the latter for scrutiny and subject to their prior censorship. The objectives of this ‘European Semester’, which represents a dangerous attack on democracy (even just understood at the merely formal level alone) are clear: ‘to coordinate’ a violent step backwards for civilisation in Europe, bringing down living and working conditions on the continent."@en1
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