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"Four years ago the Fifteen promised in Lisbon to make the European economy the most dynamic and the most competitive in the world, capable of sustainable economic growth together with a quantitative and qualitative improvement in employment and greater cohesion. European jargon can be used to paint a glowing picture of a brighter future but it cannot hide the hard truth. The Lisbon strategy was nothing but a barrage of attacks on employees. The European Union has shown itself to be incapable of preventing stock market redundancies, social plans and the closure of undertakings. It is even more scandalous that public money was used to inflate shareholders’ dividends, for example at STMicroelectronics. The European Union has never found ways of combating rogue managers, such as those at Parmalat
On the contrary, the EU continues to protect tax havens and banking secrecy.
Lisbon, though, is primarily about structural reforms of the labour market based on flexibility, precariousness and salary reduction. Finally, it is about the commercialisation of public services to the detriment of citizens. This is why the 2004 Spring European Summit must make a radical break with the Lisbon process. Since the joint resolution refused to do this, I voted against it."@en1
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