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Panic has descended on Brussels because the objective which they set in Lisbon 4 years ago for the ΕU to become the most competitive economy in the world – for the benefit of its monopolies – is a very long way from being achieved. The Council due to meet on 25 to 26 March is being called upon to take even more anti-grass roots measures, in order to make up the ground lost thanks to grass-roots reactions and demonstrations.
The Commission’s proposals as a whole and for each country are revelatory. Our country, for example, is accused, among other things, of not having yet put its old people out to work, of not having proceeded with far-reaching changes in the pension system, of not having reduced employers’ social security contributions, of not having made contracts of employment sufficiently flexible, of not having adequately promoted part-time employment and of not having completed privatisations. Even the national collective contract of employment comes under fire, because it hampers employers, who would prefer local or individual contracts of employment.
The Greek and other governments must respond to these provocative demands and we have no doubt that they will willingly do so, as they have done for so many years. However, there is also the other pole, the workers’ and grass-roots movement in general, which has the power, by rallying and fighting, to ruin these plans."@en1
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