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This report contains renewed endorsements of the work and results of the Convention we have rejected. As we have complained in the past, the undemocratic methods and processes by which the Convention was constituted helped produce a text to which we are flatly opposed, since we disagree with the social project it advocates. Under the terms of this text, an increasingly aggressive form of capitalism will become entrenched, society will be structured along neoliberal lines, everything will be commercialised and people will become increasingly devalued. The social aspects which the text promised to defend will become secondary, and we will slide further down the road mapped out in the Treaties of Maastricht and Nice.
This is a real attack on the principles of the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic. It is a threat to sovereignty, not only in legal and institutional terms, but also in concrete areas of citizens’ fundamental rights and freedoms. It is an attempt to consign any chance of alternative routes to European integration to the dustbin of history.
Instead of selecting as absolute priorities the quest for peace, development, and economic and social cohesion, based on high levels of social welfare for all, this text defines peace as a mere possibility and not as a fundamental objective. It embraces the profoundly militaristic NATO route, tied to United States imperialism.
We believe that the next Intergovernmental Conferences should reject the Convention’s proposal and find alternative ways of giving a positive response to today’s problems."@en1
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