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Despite all the concessions made by the author of the report to the reactionary political forces working for the privatisation of public services, he now seems to have been overcome by those whose support he wished to obtain. Amended or not, the Herzog report legislates for the disappearance of the public services, including their name, which has changed to ‘services of general interest’.
We are opposed to this report and, of course, to the amendments that make it worse. Education, health, public transport, postal services, telecommunications, water and energy supplies, electricity and waste disposal should remain or be restored as public services that are separate from the stupid and inhuman laws of the market, not to produce private profit but to satisfy collective needs.
Moreover, the process set out in the report translates into drastic reductions in staff, in other words a social catastrophe. On the pretext of harmonising practices between the different countries that make up the European Union, its authorities are creating a serious social decline. Nevertheless, harmonisation could be done on the basis of development of the public services and expanding them, especially by building social housing, if the European institutions and the Member States were serving collective, rather than private, interests.
We therefore voted against this report."@en1
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