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The European Council is changing its presidency but liberalism is still in control.
The Swedish programme talks enthusiastically about competitiveness, competition and free trade. This time around, there is hardly any mention of the social agenda and other nods in the direction of solidarity, the favourite alibis of the outgoing French Presidency, and the emphasis is purely on economic criteria.
The criteria for an antisocial Europe which will mean insecurity and poverty for the workers of both Member States and candidate countries, taking as its slogans the ‘flexible organisation of work’ and the ‘modernisation of social protection’, just the kind of thing to encourage the mediaeval ambitions of the bosses. Nor does this document make any secret of its desire to ‘create a business-friendly climate’. With feigned piety, the EU is preparing itself for a regal handout of new markets in energy, transport, and even intellectual property.
And also the criteria of an imperial Europe, the kingpin of capitalist globalisation, which intends to ‘move, within the WTO, towards specific liberalisation measures’. Today, just like yesterday, in Nice as in Gothenburg, we shall oppose this policy in order to create a social Europe, a Europe for workers and peoples, which will begin by levelling upwards the best of the European acquis."@en1
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