Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-02-11-Speech-2-308"
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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, scientific progress has been nothing short of miraculous over the past decade, especially in information technology. Under different circumstances, this progress might translate into prosperity for society as a whole.
Under the capitalist system, however, scientific progress serves the market, not society. Science develops within a framework that requires what were once public-sector services – welfare, health, even culture and education – to be privatised and commercialised, throttled by the most competitive knowledge-based society decided on by the European Union in Lisbon. In short, it becomes a source of profit for the few, rather than a source of prosperity for the many.
Under these circumstances, the positive points in the Paasilinna report are of little practical value to disadvantaged social groups in danger of remaining excluded from the information society. If remote regions, disabled people and so on run these risks, what can we say about the mass unemployed, the mass underemployed, the even bigger mass of the poorly paid? What value, for example, are telematics health services or the famous European health card to these people? Who will be able to offer these services? The family doctor or the multinational companies that keep plundering the health sector? Will developing third generation services or European operational systems resolve the problem?
Finally, I must comment on the proposal to create a market in public records. In the European Union, where everything is bought and sold, where a radio frequency market and even a market in atmospheric pollutants and polluting rights have been created, we now have a public records market.
I admire the Commission’s entrepreneurial inventiveness and wonder what the next victim of the market will be? Perhaps the very air we breathe?"@en1
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