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"The Lisbon Summit was supposed to focus on a social Europe. In fact, a new wave of neo-liberalism swept through Lisbon and gave the EU its marching orders in the global economic war. Far from focussing on social and democratic rights, indeed looking more to the US social model, the summit once again sang the praises of the law of profit, workforce flexibility and all-out competition, with new forms of privatisation and liberalisation. In short, everything should be quoted on the stock exchange. And this was done with the complicity of all the left-wing governments present in Lisbon.
To sugar the pill, the EU is promising us quasi-general access to the Internet and cutting-edge vocational training. To crown it all, it is actually dangling the idea of full employment, i.e. the creation of 20 to 30 million new jobs, before our noses. These splendid promises mean only one thing: a huge rise in insecure jobs, casual work and low wages, with the constant threat of redundancy and, on top of that, a scheme for an inegalitarian overhaul of the social protection system. Employers, for their part, will once again enjoy quite indecent subsidies. A new economy, but we are being served up the same old recipes again."@en1
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