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"Mr President, two years after the Lisbon Summit, the most optimistic and most willing Europeans recall the announcement of a new paradigm: to make the European Union the most competitive knowledge-based economy in the world and achieve greater social cohesion. This strategy, which was finalised at Gothenburg, is becoming a strategy for sustainable development in the environmental and social spheres. We wanted to believe this, we would like to believe this, we still want to believe this, but, in reality, the integration of economic, social and environmental dimensions is still merely an illusion. The Spanish Presidency, however, is not pretending. It is working with great honesty. It perceives the Union’s sustainable development to be the efficiency of markets, goods, services, capital and employment. Can we pretend to believe this? They want to sell us the accelerated liberalisation of the markets, transport, electricity and gas, although they know that this will result in our being less capable of supplying services to combat poverty, to provide social protection; it will bring about less territorial cohesion and fewer high-quality jobs, as all the studies have shown. We are providing flexibility in the employment market and the mobility of employees instead of a real job creation policy. Mr Bullmann’s report is trying to achieve the impossible. He would like to have his cake and eat it. He wants the commitments of the Stability and Growth Pact to be fulfilled and to see investment in education, research, the environment and networks. He wants high-quality employment and flexibility in the market. There is no doubt, in our view, that the real priorities of the Barcelona Summit are the development of the social economy based on solidarity, an independent income, including for young people who are slipping further into poverty, a real definition of services of general interest, a reduction in working time, investment in the environment and lifestyle. These, in our opinion, are the priorities of the Barcelona Summit."@en1
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