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This report restates the credo of the advocates of a Europe of capitalists and bankers according to which it would be sufficient to make life easier for employers by making it less costly to launch businesses, expedite the privatisation of public services and step up the flexibility of the labour market in order to see economic growth take off, thereby putting an end to unemployment.
The fact that the privatisation of the post office or the railways in those countries of Europe where this has already taken place has demonstrated that the first to suffer from this are the public sector workers and service users, since private operators are ready to sacrifice absolutely everything except their profits, does not prevent the rapporteur’s making so bold as to guarantee that “current safety levels” for rail will be maintained, despite the evidence to the contrary.
The rapporteur passes over the fact that most of the jobs generated are insecure and underpaid and announces that “the ageing of the population will necessitate... increasing participation in labour market, especially among... older workers”. Where is the much-promised social progress in all that?
The massive increase in productivity would make it perfectly possible to guarantee a better standard of living for all the working and the retired population if a small minority of property owners were not determined to seize all profits for themselves. Consequently, the stated objective of making “the European economy the most competitive and dynamic... in the world” cannot be achieved except on the backs of the workers, who would bear the entire burden of boosting the profits of the major capitalist groups in the form of deterioration in their working and living conditions.
We voted against this report."@en1
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