Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-05-15-Speech-2-138"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-05-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:VOTE2
dcterms:Language	"pt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010515.5.2-138"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-05-15-Speech-2-1402
lpv:speaker	lp:Ilda Figueiredo2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; EMPL (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Partido Comunista Português (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries and the Gulf (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 substitute; AGRI (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; EUL/NGL (1999-07-20--2002-03-05)3
lpv:translated text	". Not even the prospect of a slowdown in the European and world economies, which has been confirmed by the spring macroeconomic forecast, is making the Commission change its recommendations for the broad economic guidelines for 2001. The remedy that it is proposing has remained unchanged over the years: a reduction in public spending, wage moderation and an acceleration of the structural reform process laid down in the Lisbon Strategy, specifically in terms of liberalising the labour market and making it more flexible. The Commission is not interested in anything apart from price stability and fulfilling the criteria of the Stability Pact. Even for Portugal, whose prospects indicate greater difficulties in reaching the European growth level and higher unemployment, especially amongst women and young people, a country in which workers are being punished by higher inflation and the concomitant loss of buying power, despite still having the lowest wages in the European Union, the remedy is the same: wage moderation, making it easier for employers to make redundancies, and working towards the objectives of the Stability Pact, with a greater reduction in public spending in the 2002 budget. The von Wogau report endorses the approach outlined by the Commission and highlights the unique proposal to call the “European internal market” the “euro zone” instead. The rapporteur endorses the blind quest for price stability at the expense of economic growth. He disregards the importance of public investment and calls for the “the potential for (public) spending cuts” to be “fully exploited”. He regrets the fact that the Stockholm summit did not make progress on liberalising the gas and electricity sectors and “stresses that liberalisation in the outstanding sectors is essential”. He “stresses the need to continue reform of labour markets” and expresses the need to reform pensions and health systems. Issues of employment are completely ignored. We therefore had no choice but to vote against this report."@en1

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