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The open coordination procedure is an underhand way of promoting EU policies outside the framework of the Treaties. The procedure consists of determining guidelines, transferring them to national policy and monitoring, evaluating and reviewing them. It is being promoted as a coordination procedure on a voluntary basis and as a mechanism for exchanging experience; however, the fact that it does not require legislation at Community level makes it particularly opaque and, consequently, ideal for promoting anti-grass roots policies or policies which fall outside the competences of the ΕU.
Between when it was introduced and today, it has been applied many times to issues of employment, social policy, research policy, for companies, education, immigration, asylum and so on. Thus, the peoples of the Member States of the ΕU come up against a volley of anti-labour measures (for example, employment relations, pensions and the famous Bologna process for universities), without realising that they emanate from the ΕU.
The report which we are examining not only fails to oppose the anti-democratic essence of the procedure, but also tries to beautify it and give it a democratic veneer. For these reasons, the MEPs of the Communist Party of Greece voted against it, just as we voted against the motion by the Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport. The workers will not be deceived by the policy of the ΕU, however much and however they try to wrap it up."@en1
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