Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-12-13-Speech-3-040"
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"en.20001213.1.3-040"2
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"Madam President, Arlette Laguiller and I reject any way in which private capital might be introduced into postal services.
The effects of the first directive have not been made public, for the consequences are obvious: job losses and poorer working conditions, public services of varying quality throughout Europe, especially in rural areas and working class districts. A few large private groups will cherry-pick and divide up amongst themselves those profitable sectors of post office activity which the European Union is still preparing to offer them.
Now, a self-styled ‘soft’ version of the Commission’s liberalising proposal is offered to us, particularly in connection with the price-weight threshold of 150 instead of 350 grammes. The gradual, controlled liberalisation presented by the French Presidency as a lesser evil is a hypocritical way of handing an essential public service over to a market which is neither controlled nor controllable, as has already been done in the case of France-Télécom.
When the left-wing coalition cites realism in an attempt to obtain a compromise solution with a right-wing party, it is a way of disguising its own capitulation to private interests. The representatives of ‘
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have not been elected in order to ensure that public services are quoted on the stock exchange and will be voting against this compromise."@en1
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"Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire’"1
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