Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-06-13-Speech-4-160"
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"en.20020613.4.4-160"2
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"We have voted against this text, which is yet another plea for the European institutions to be placed still further at the service of private capital, for the latter no longer to face any obstacles at all in Europe and for open markets to become a reality in those sectors which have not been fully privatised, namely telecommunications, energy, postal services and transport.
The report is not interested in the users of services, who are in danger of seeing the complete deterioration of public services if these forms of privatisation end up being imposed. What the report is interested in is the ‘dynamic climate of investment and entrepreneurship’ which it intends to favour through a reduction in the “tax burden” and through “access to funding”, in particular for what are termed small and medium-sized enterprises.
It argues, in fact, for the European Union to give more attention, and more aid, to such enterprises, and although its ‘explanatory statement’ is eloquent about the situation of “small enterprises” in Europe, it conceals the fact that the vast majority of these enterprises belong to large groups whose subsidiaries they are. In practice, this means that these forms of aid on the part of the European Union will mainly add muscle to the largest companies.
Those elected by universal suffrage are therefore being asked to vote in such a way as to provide their democratic support for the private interests of the small minority of people who possess capital."@en1
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