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"The Stockholm European Council is happy with the European Union’s achievements and has announced that its ‘strategic goal’ remains “to become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world”.
The working classes certainly have nothing to be happy about. To say that ‘unemployment has fallen to its lowest level since 1991’ is an involuntary way of recognising that it is still as high as it was ten years ago, when it was already catastrophic. In addition, the balance sheet for these ten years includes the widespread introduction, throughout Europe, of poorly paid casual work and the decline of wages as a proportion of national income.
Only big companies and their proprietors and shareholders, can be happy about the exceptional level of profits, because that result has been obtained at the expense of working people, as well as public services and social provision.
As to the future, we are promised a continuation of current policies. Some points even threaten a worse situation, particularly in terms of longer working hours and attacks on retirement age.
We refuse to give an endorsement for the future to European institutions entirely at the service of industrial and financial groups."@en1
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