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"Mr President, Commissioner Rehn, it is a fact that the Commission never claimed that the crisis was behind us; however, it is also a fact that three crises – fiscal, economic and social – have been under way in parallel over recent years. To date, the Commission has put all its weight behind fiscal austerity, thereby underestimating the economic and social consequences, the deep recession and spiralling unemployment, especially among young people. This has led to Europe being targeted and to a widespread lack of confidence among European citizens and we should be concerned by the fact that, wherever elections are being held, and I am not referring to Greece, I am referring to France, Europe is at the centre of the election campaign, but in a negative, not a positive way.
Greece has made huge steps towards fiscal consolidation, under extremely difficult circumstances, with just one party, the Socialist Party, bearing all the responsibility and all the cost – both political and social – of managing the crisis up to just a few months ago. Mainly, however, the responsibility has been assumed by the Greek people due to vote in three weeks and I should like to ask the Vice-President of the European Commission, based on the letters from Mr Venizelos and Mr Papademos to the Commission, to tell us what specific measures and policies it can use to help combat unemployment, especially among young people, which is close to 50%, to safeguard financing for small and medium-sized enterprises, which are failing, and to unblock the major projects that are crucial to growth and job creation."@en1
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