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Efforts are being made to resolve the problem of unemployment by stepping up the neo-liberal monetarist policies and persisting with the financial prudence which were responsible for the current recession and high unemployment in the first place.
Under the misleading heading of ‘sustainable development and full employment’ coined in Lisbon and despite increasing inequalities, the Member States are being called on to complete structural reforms which share out unemployment, make flexible forms of work the norm, create uncertainty and job insecurity and reduce wage costs in order to safeguard sustained growth in profits for big business. Widespread long-term unemployment which, at over 10%, has been the scourge of the working classes for years, is now twinned with widespread temporary and limited forms of employment.
Demographic change and the sustainability of the funds are being used as an excuse for proposing that people work into later life, as part of an ‘active ageing’ policy, and for subverting the insurance and pension system.
Increasing investment will not solve the problem as most investment is in technological equipment which cuts rather than creates jobs.
We are opposed to EU policies in keeping with the Stability Pact and the Lisbon process because they do not meet the needs of workers, farmers and small and medium-sized businesses, they are designed to undermine workers’ rights and they dance to the tune called by big business."@en1
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