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In the year 2000, when the European Council met in Lisbon, we were promised that the European economy would become the most competitive in the world by 2010. Mato Adrover’s report, for its part, observes that the growth and employment objectives have not been achieved. This does not surprise us at all. The miracle envisaged for 2010 is not going to happen.
This proposal for new guidelines, moreover, is merely the umpteenth proclamation of lofty sentiments which insults the millions of people who live from hand to mouth in social insecurity and poverty.
These demagogic flights of fancy create a smokescreen to hide an intolerable future for workers threatened by job-dumping, a future in which individuals have to sell themselves at the best available rate while China’s factories and Brazil’s farms destroy our economy, deliberately sacrificed on the altar of free trade and unbridled globalisation.
The reality in Europe is the loss of jobs and the eastward gold rush of large companies as a prelude to their final exit from Europe. The reality is that jobs are moving out while immigrants continue to move in for no purpose. Instead of fine words, it is time for action so that preference and national and Community protection prevail at long last within a more controlled economy and employment market."@en1
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