Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-11-21-Speech-4-043"
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"en.20021121.2.4-043"2
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"Mr President, as a result of competition policy, large sectors of European industry have lost jobs and a significant share of the global market; more to the point, they have lost hundreds of thousands of workers to the dole queues. This policy has helped create huge monopolistic groups which have acquired a dominant position on the market by promoting mergers, alliances and takeovers and greater unaccountability when it comes to price fixing, thereby ousting competitors – mainly small and medium-sized enterprises – from the market, and has resulted in massive waves of redundancies, spiralling unemployment and loss of wealth.
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to job creation has proven to be misguided, because exactly the opposite is happening in practice. What worries the European Union is the delay in finalising the liberalisation of the natural gas and electricity markets, the energy markets, and transport and postal services, and the delay in completing the full liberalisation of the markets and privatisations and making temporary and provisional forms of employment the norm. The MEPs of the Communist Party of Greece support the workers standing up against and opposing this liberalisation ..."@en1
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