Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-01-14-Speech-3-114"
| Predicate | Value (sorted: default) |
|---|---|
| rdf:type | |
| dcterms:Date | |
| dcterms:Is Part Of | |
| dcterms:Language | |
| lpv:document identification number |
"en.20040114.2.3-114"2
|
| lpv:hasSubsequent | |
| lpv:speaker | |
| lpv:translated text |
"We voted against the Herzog report, which shows once again that this Parliament is no more in favour of progress than are the Commission or the Council of the European Union. The ultraliberal majority in Parliament introduced this report as a paean to the destruction of public services. To quote only one point from ten or twenty articles which are along the same lines, we read that Parliament ‘welcomes the liberalisation in the fields of telecommunications, postal services, transport and energy, which has led to modernisation, interconnection and integration of the sectors, has led to price reductions through increased competition, and has led to the creation of nearly one million jobs across the European Union’. And it wants to speed things up.
What we see at work here is a mendacious dogmatism that collides head-on with the wishes of the European people. It is regrettable that the rapporteur, like a significant proportion of European socialists, chose to vote for this report because it opens up the prospect of a framework directive on services of general interest. But must we do it on such a liberal basis? In this setting, only street-level activism on the largest scale can create a positive outlook in the face of the destruction of public services."@en1
|
Named graphs describing this resource:
The resource appears as object in 2 triples