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This report backs the Commission, which defends the idea of greater coordination in implementing the economic policy and the so-called employment policy of the Member States.
The only ‘economic policy’ that the European Union and its Member States know, however, consists of constantly favouring the interests of businesses and their owners. As for their ‘employment policy’, it is, at best – if one can say so – a pretext for distributing aid and subsidies to these same businesses, and primarily to major European industrial and financial groups. And, at worst, it manifests itself in the ever-increasing number of workers out of a job: today, there are almost 20 million people unemployed in the European Union, and in addition, there are millions of workers who have only precarious employment. We constantly hear of plans for mass redundancies. And you dare to speak of ‘employment policy’! And how can you discuss ‘streamlining’ your economic and employment policies, when each day provides further evidence of the irrational nature of your system, and of its fundamental social injustice?
By voting against this report, we are therefore reaffirming our rejection of your capitalist system."@en1
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