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The Stockholm Summit will not be remembered for its successes, the endeavours of the Swedish Presidency notwithstanding. It did not manage to set up a European Food Safety Agency, despite the spread of foot-and-mouth and BSE. It did not manage to agree on a common European patent system. It continues to rely on the USA for a satellite location system, now that the Galileo programme has come to a standstill, and questions relating to the electricity market are no further forward than they were at the Lisbon Summit.
However, the main problem lies in the guidelines issued by the European Council on dismantling social protection mechanisms. By obsessing on notions such as the ‘ageing population’, the need to ‘modernise the European social model’ and the priority of ‘the sustainability of public finances’ in relation to social systems, they are covering, strengthening and legalising the attempt being made by numerous governments in the European Union – such as Greece – to dismantle social protection systems and hand the workers over to private insurance companies without so much as a guarantee.
I believe that the labour movement should react decisively to these negative guidelines from the European Council in Stockholm."@en1
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