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Once again the leaders of the ΕU will meet behind closed doors in order to decide on our future. Military and civil "crisis management", the fire which has broken out in the Balkans and the increasingly acute destabilisation of the area and the enlargement of the EU are just some of the items on the agenda. They will also receive the President of the USA in order to carve up the world and broker an understanding with him on the new Star Wars.
However, in reality, the summit will be held under the shadow of the recent referendum in Ireland, in which the people rejected the Nice Treaty. However much the leaders of the EU try to play down the results of the Irish referendum, they cannot alter the fact that the Irish people have spoken out against the barbaric and inhumane policy being imposed by the interests of big business on our continent. Their reactions show exactly where the limits of civic democracy lie. They have provocatively stated that the timetable for ratifying the Treaty will be adhered to, the results of the referendum notwithstanding, thereby confirming that their democracy is a dictatorship of big business.
The state of the European economy, the fall in the euro and other economic issues will be addressed with even stricter anti-grass roots measures than before, at the expense of the workers, by speeding up capital restructuring and hitting the insurance systems, so as to safeguard the competitiveness and profitability of big business in Europe, thereby creating more poverty, unemployment and insecurity for the people of Europe. This is the Europe of their visions; by no stretch of the imagination is it the Europe of the workers. The reference to the environment and what is euphemistically called "sustainable development" is a smokescreen to hide the fact that neoliberal policy is invading the collective sector which we call the environment.
The motion for a resolution by the European Parliament not only accepts these guidelines, it goes even further. It distorts reality in a desperate bid to convince the people that all this is for their own good. It plainly commends the militarisation of the European Union and expresses the hope that the Rapid Reaction Force will start demonstrating its operational capacity before the end of the year. It calls for the Member States to spend vast sums on military expenses and on the European Council to approve a strong and efficient conflict prevention programme. It hypocritically condemns terrorist action by the KLA and applauds the pressure being exerted on the government of the FYROM via Mr Solana and Mr Patten. And to prove just how meddlesome it is, the European Parliament has seen fit to commend the Commission's proposal that tobacco subsidies gradually be abolished.
It is for these reasons that the MEPs of the Communist Party of Greece voted against the motion."@en1
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