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The European Council held last March was the occasion for a new demonstration of hypocrisy by the leaders of the European Union, panicked at the idea of a victory for the ‘no’ vote in the French referendum.
In spite of the soothing discussions, the Bolkestein directive was neither thoroughly reviewed nor withdrawn. It continues along its normal legislative path, with just one concession: the Council of Ministers will attempt to find a consensus. We are made to think it is a great diplomatic victory when it is no more and no less than the application of a 40-year-old method, the ‘Luxembourg compromise’.
The reform of the Stability and Growth Pact, that harmful budgetary constraint, is also window-dressing. The negotiation of the European Constitution could have provided the opportunity for in-depth reform of the Maastricht criteria, which make scarcely any economic sense. It could also have provided the opportunity to force the European Central Bank to support employment and growth as a matter of priority. Nothing has been done. In its place, we have these paltry finishing touches, whilst the Pact continues to have the effect of amplifying, indeed of provoking, the economic and social difficulties of our countries.
These manoeuvres are absurd. They will not trick those who, in increasingly large numbers, reject the development of the Europe of Brussels."@en1
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