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"en.20011113.7.2-139"2
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At the Lisbon European Council in March 2000, European governments decided to ‘increase the pace of liberalisation in sectors such as gas, electricity, postal services and transport’. The Commission and the European Parliament, by means of the Langen report, are supporting this process of ‘selling off’ the methods we use to meet our citizens’ basic social needs, and are thus strengthening the domination of markets over our societies.
We all know, however, that in sectors that have already been liberalised, the expected gains in productivity have not been met; that the erosion of public services has caused standards of quality of service and of safety to fall; that, for employees, the ‘gradual and controlled’ opening up to market forces has led to staff cuts and greater job insecurity, and has caused inequalities in regional development. Is this the European model of society that the European Union desires?
We believe that we must urgently block the liberalisation process and re-appropriate public services by freeing them from the markets."@en1
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"Regarding the liberalisation of services of general interest, we are opposed to coordinating public services at European level, and even creating public Euro-services within the framework of common policies of general interest, through state-owned businesses, involving users and employees, over the long term, and making use of the most advanced techniques. We reject the Langen report for this specific reason."1
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