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Behind a presentation that is supposed to be optimistic, the description the reports give of the Eastern European states forming the majority of European Union candidate countries is gloomy.
‘Worrying levels of corruption’, ‘overpopulation of prisons’, ‘enormous traffic in women and children for the purposes of prostitution and sexual exploitation’, ‘high level of unemployment’, ‘poverty’, ‘seriously damaged environment’, ‘unpromising economic outlook’, ‘acceleration in the spread of the HIV virus’, ‘oppression of minorities’, ‘discrimination against the Roma’, these are some of the expressions used in relation to one Eastern European country or another, or, in some extreme cases, to all.
Despite this, the report expresses satisfaction with the fact that privatisations are going ahead, even in the health sector, denying healthcare to a significant proportion of the population, and with the fact that foreign investments and exports are on the increase in these countries.
The return of these states to brutal capitalism and the increasing stranglehold of powerful investors from the west are already causing a considerable rise in social inequalities. However, despite a few sanctimonious warnings given by the reports to the governments of these countries, what they are mainly asking for is for the remaining obstacles to the penetration of foreign capital to be lifted and for
to be increased, that is to say, for their working classes to be submitted to a higher level of exploitation.
Being supporters of a completely unified Europe from one end of the continent to the other, we have not voted against enlargement. Our abstention expresses our opposition to the master and slave relationship that the European Union is seeking to impose on these countries in collaboration with their privileged classes, in addition to the anti-worker policy imposed under the pretext of enlargement."@en1
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"‘the flexibility and mobility of work’"1
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