Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-04-13-Speech-3-033"
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"Mr President, if a house’s foundations are rotten, you cannot help it withstand the winter by improving the roof. The Stability Pact does not deserve to be reformed, it deserves to be abolished. In particular, the new provision for taking account of so-called structural reforms clearly shows what it has always been about: it has not been about price stability or about solid government finances; it has been an instrument to justify rushing through neoliberal liberalisation and privatisation plans, plans whose implementation had already pushed the profits of European conglomerates up by 78% in 2004. However, those who reap the profits are clearly far from satisfied.
The proposal for a services directive is a new attempt to finally lay the European social model
to rest. Instead of harmonising standards upwards, we will see an unrestrained dumping race to the lowest common denominator; instead of welfare as and where required, all sectors of human life will be commercialised. That is obviously the vision for Europe which the think tanks of the major groups, the business lobby, have in mind.
Seventy thousand people demonstrated in Brussels in March against the brutality of the neoliberal project. They will be watching to see if the Council's criticism only had the imminent Constitution referendum in France in its sights or if serious deeds follow."@en1
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