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"The changes proposed and the idea of coordinating general economic policy and employment policy guidelines could be a step in the right direction, helping to bring about a radical change in economic policy, if only the very acute social problem were a priority which other policies had to fall in line with.
The opposite is happening, however. The emphasis is still on the Stability Pact and the policy of privatisation, merger and capitalist restructuring, which has resulted – in fact still is resulting – in mass redundancies, falling standards of living and pay, fewer and fewer social services and infringements of workers' rights, creating justifiable fears that coordination might cause even more problems, with social issues playing second fiddle to the policy of liberalisation and the rampant profit principle.
Of course, coordination leaves out two of the four pillars proclaimed by the ΕU, namely environmental protection and social cohesion, but adds the completion of the single internal market.
We believe that the sole objective of this sort of ‘coordination’ is to mislead the workers. We support a policy based on the objective of full, stable employment predicated on man and his needs, with full, protected social rights for all workers, a better standard of living and real social development and prosperity."@en1
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