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"en.20030630.10.1-085"2
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"In the debate between Council and Parliament on the award of public markets in the European Union, the eye is instantly caught by the extent to which the bitterest enemies of state control forget their reservations as soon as the contest for state contracts begins. State money attracts them. How could the great construction and public works consortiums have built their financial empires, indeed, without state contracts? How would armaments consortiums survive if there were no public money?
The so-called market economy is on a life-support machine, kept alive by the state on a saline drip. It is no coincidence that public market harmonisation is progressing so slowly. The big industrial cartels would like to keep access to their own state’s money hostage even as they lay their hands on the public money of the country next door. As to the conditions for award of markets, the rules which are beginning to emerge reflect, in their desiccated bureaucratism, a cynicism bordering on sincerity. Under these conditions for the award procedure, the monetary value of the offer is the only thing that matters. Environmental and health requirements have been forgotten, to the justifiable indignation of Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth. The same fate has befallen working conditions and workers’ remuneration in the companies which are pocketing public money. Also forgotten are so many other aspects, such as archaeological research. Forgotten, last of all, are the interests of society in general. Returns are all that counts. Social organisation has been reduced to a balance sheet.
Furthermore, under the pretext of coordinating procedures in the water, energy, transport and postal service markets, the Council is trying to enshrine these as intrinsically no more than that: markets, rather than vital services for the whole of society. No! Those water, energy and transport services, those postal services, must be and remain public services. They cannot be surrendered to these private groups, who are concerned with their own profits and not with the interests of users."@en1
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