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We shall be voting against the Katiforis report, every point of which we disapprove of. First and foremost, we reject its stubborn promotion of wage policies that are “suitable to the maintaining of wage moderation”. We feel instead that the growth we have regained is fragile and could well be destroyed in the rush to implement such recommendations. We should instead try to ensure that, throughout Europe, wages increase at the same rate as the per capita GDP.
We are also opposed to the socio-liberal policy of tax reduction. It would be much better to concentrate the resources freed up by excessive growth on increasing welfare budgets and on fighting against poverty caused by long years of the prevailing economic liberalism. We recommend that we should fight these “structural changes intended to increase flexibility”, which the report claims it approves. Pursuing this path is the best way to stifle growth and to increase unemployment.
We feel instead that we should implement a social policy at European level based first and foremost on the establishment of a system of minimum wages and collective labour agreements."@en1
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