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"Mr President, may I say that Mr Aznar, the President-in-Office of the Council, very clearly identified the key words of the economic governance of Europe. As he indicated, the three wells from which the Union draws its economic policies are liberalisation, privatisation and competition.
These wells, if I may say so, contain toxic water. The dismantling of public services which were operating more or less properly has been the source of all kinds of social havoc and inefficiency: the railways in Britain, the postal and health services in France, electricity supplies in most parts of Catalonia, and so on.
In Lisbon the Council spoke of making the economy of the Union the most competitive in the world by the year 2010. At what price? At the price of all-out, dog-eat-dog warfare. We are far from the pursuit of happiness which the most perceptive politicians of the late eighteenth century regarded as an inalienable right of human beings. Instead, we have the prospect of permanent stress, widespread insecurity of employment, mass exclusion and perhaps, in due course, the same tragedy that has now engulfed Argentina. In Biarritz, Gothenburg, Nice and Laeken, grass-roots society has demonstrated against such aberrations. Tomorrow, in my own city of Barcelona, there may well be more demonstrations. I believe it is essential to listen to the voice of protest, and I feel that the Trentin report pays it insufficient heed."@en1
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