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"Τhe text of the decision on social inclusion following the vote on the amendments is a far cry from the original text of the Figueiredo report approved by the Committee on Employment. Not only have references to the disastrous results of liberalisation, competition policy, agricultural and fisheries policy, the stability pact and the need for welfare benefits, social protection and redistribution of resources and opportunities been removed, it now states that employment is a right and opportunity for those who want to work, with temporary work seen as the only opportunity for many of those who are unwilling to look for or unable to find permanent employment. In other words, the unemployed who do not want to work are responsible for unemployment!
The way the vote went again shows the European Parliament in its true colours, unable to ditch its role as the bastion of big business and the policy of the ruling classes.
That is why the MEPs of the Communist Party of Greece voted against the report, even though it retained a few positive points, including those I referred to in my intervention yesterday (free, compulsory education for 12 years)."@en1
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