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"en.20041027.3.3-029"2
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"Mr President, we are very concerned about the implementation and revision of the Lisbon Agenda, which was adopted in March 2000. The concern is that today, instead of what was promised, we have 20 million people unemployed and around 70 million people at risk of poverty. These figures are appalling. If it is true that the Lisbon Agenda has been one big failure, as President Prodi recently stated at the end of his term in office, it has failed solely in terms of the expectations it aroused and the promises it made in social areas, namely full employment and social inclusion, and in terms of knowledge and research. It has not failed in the areas that were of interest to the large economic and financial groups.
Liberalisation and privatisation in essential sectors such as energy, postal services, telecommunications, essential public services and financial sectors continues apace, to the extent that more and more legislative proposals have appeared in areas that jeopardise fundamental human rights and workers’ rights, such as the proposal for a directive aimed at creating an internal services market – in other words, more privatisations – and the retrograde and unacceptable proposal for a directive on working hours. The Lisbon Agenda must, therefore, be reviewed, so that its content can be amended and so that jobs, and the social inclusion that is needed, can be given priority."@en1
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