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Transatlantic relations are currently in turmoil. The root of the problem is the offensive of the US Government, which is using its military victory in Afghanistan to strengthen and consolidate its superpower.
However, America’s quest for global supremacy is also giving rise to clashes and tension amongst the ruling classes in countries at both the centre and the fringes of the globe. The current conflict concerning the tax introduced by the United States on steel imports is an obvious manifestation of this. American imperialism is willing to impose ‘global deregulation’, but does not rule out the use of protectionist measures when it feels its interests are threatened.
I did not, however, vote for this joint resolution. The European Union’s opposition is merely a way of supporting European multinationals in a ruthless economic war. Above all, we support workers throughout the world, including those in the United States. We do not support the interests of multinationals against other interests.
The more the EU continues to ‘combat’ the United States, the more of their policy it adopts. Therefore, the ‘Lisbon process’, whose aim is to transform the EU into ‘the most competitive economy in the world’, seeks to erode, through liberalisation, privatisation and excessive commercialisation, the living conditions of the working population in Europe and in the Developing World."@en1
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