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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-12-03"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:European Council, Social Summit, IGC (continuation)2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20031203.6.3-035"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-12-03-Speech-3-0362
lpv:speaker	lp:Efstratios Korakas2
lpv:spokenAs	member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (1999-10-13--2004-07-19)3,3 member; Delegation for relations with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3,3 unknown; Kommounistiko Komma Elladas (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3,3 substitute; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3,3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, of course the workers, the peoples of our countries, do not expect the Council summit to talk to them about the reality they experience on a daily basis as the result of the policy of the centre right or centre left governments of the European Union. They experience on the ground the increase in unemployment, shrinking incomes, the campaign against and even the abolition of the eight-hour day and their other rights as a result of the famous Lisbon agenda, the application of which is to be assessed by the Council. They know that all this is being promoted in the name of competitiveness and productivity, with the sole objective of increasing the profits of big business in the European Union. This is also the more general objective of the constant reduction in labour costs, even where we have increased rates of growth, such as in Greece, where the workers are the most productive and the worst paid in the European Union. As with all the other issues which will be discussed, such as the Intergovernmental Conference and the European Constitution, which institutionalises capitalism, the further militarisation and autocracy of the European Union, the strengthening of repressive anti-labour mechanisms, the – as far as the peoples are concerned, negative – enlargement with ten new countries and immigration and asylum policy, the sole aim of the Council summit is to safeguard and increase the profits and the power of big business in the European Union. The continuing occupation of Iraq is also resulting solely in increased profits and is continuing to claim victims among the Iraqi people, as well as among the conquerors and their allies as a result of the justified resistance of the Iraqi people. So the European Council in Brussels will not only not change these political orientations, but will also take measures to reinforce and legally safeguard them. In my opinion, the only way to change this situation is develop resistance and counterattack by the peoples, which fortunately are burgeoning constantly. We shall do everything within our power to strengthen this prospect."@en1

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