Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-05-17-Speech-3-034"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-05-17"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Broad outlines of economic policies2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000517.2.3-034"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-05-17-Speech-3-0352
lpv:speaker	lp:Armonia Bordes2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegations to the parliamentary cooperation committees and delegations for relations with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 member; ECON (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; EUL/NGL (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Lutte ouvrière (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the Katiforis report is no more than a mundane vindication of the broad guidelines for the economic policies of the Member States. Of its 29 paragraphs, 8 go in for approval and then 4 indulge in self-congratulation. As far as the working population of the countries of the European Union is concerned, there really is not much to be pleased about. What use is the economic growth that the report boasts about, if it is only going to recommend – addressing employees of course – adopting a reasonable attitude in wage negotiations, going so far as to claim that the pension system must be radically revised with a view to protecting their financial position? This is one way of admitting that there is no place in this growth for employed workers or for retired workers. Once again, the Council and the Commission are acting as spokespersons for big business, asking Parliament to sanction it. For our part, we have not been elected to offer congratulations to governments that come to the assistance of big business and major financial groups in order to enable them to accrue even greater wealth by exacerbating inequalities, leaving 18 million women and men unemployed, making flexibility at work and job instability more widespread, by making swingeing cuts in the total wage bill in order to ensure the continued growth of income from capital, including its most parasitic speculative forms. If it is true, as the report states, that we have seen a return to growth, then it is all the more appalling that, throughout Europe, only a tiny minority benefits from it. We shall therefore be voting against this report."@en1

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