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"The Katiforis report is an incredible demonstration of the lack of awareness among European capitalists. It is based on a total misunderstanding of the reasons for the current recovery which is in no way the result of neo-liberal policies favouring wage austerity and a strong currency. On the contrary, current job creations are due to an economic context characterised by an increase in consumption among wage-earners and a weak euro favouring exports.
Despite this convenient denial, the report proposes to plunge further into social regression. It proposes increased flexibility in the markets, starting with the labour market. It calls for ‘wage stability’ and exhorts the unions to adopt ‘reasonable attitudes’ in wage negotiations.
So as not to appear to be the direct spokesperson for employers, the report tries to include some social clauses. Yet the contradictions are striking. How, for example, can it propose the reform or ‘modernisation’ of social protection, which in practice means replacing solidarity with financial products, and yet invoke a ‘spirit of social cohesion’? How can wages be restricted ‘in a spirit of fairness’ when profits reveal unashamed exuberance?
The only other argument in the report invokes the use of new technologies to bring about modernisation. But why should these automatically be allowed to threaten the European social model? This crude materialism, sometimes attributed to Marxists, has now been adopted by cynical capitalists whose only aim is to extend the rule of trade regardless of social needs. We have therefore voted against a text which is both foolish and repugnant."@en1
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