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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2006-03-22"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:2007 Annual Policy Strategy (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20060322.11.3-066"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-03-22-Speech-3-0672
lpv:speaker	lp:Kyriacos Triantaphyllides2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2007-03-14)3 member; REGI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Anorthotiko Komma Ergazomenou Laou - Aristera - Nees Dynameis (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; LIBE (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2007-03-14)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, the major question raised by my political group lies not solely in the policies for which specific provision is made for 2007, but also in the doubts which are being created in our mind in connection with the broader strategic direction being given to the European construct as a whole. It is unacceptable for us to become witnesses every day to the tempestuous concern and protests which have been stirred up by the new anti-grass roots employment laws in France; we have frequently become witnesses recently of citizens' reactions to various directives. It is unacceptable when the Union buries its head in the sand by following through on policies which promote benefits not for the workers but for large companies. It is following through on the Lisbon Strategy which, in a bid to disorientate the workers, is now allegedly a 'reformed' strategy. Has it perhaps been reformed or changed in substance since when it was first decided or has it managed to promote the development of a social policy agenda designed to safeguard basic social standards, quality employment and the reconciliation of work and private life? No, it has not. In the name of competitiveness, workers rights are on the receiving end every day of the fire of capitalist Europe. Working times are being extended, wages are being cut, collective agreements are being abolished, unemployment and unequal pay are increasing and the welfare regime is being swept away completely. The first to suffer are young people, the people on whom we are calling – and that is the irony – to build a Europe with a future. At the same time, policies are being promoted which allegedly oil the wheels of immigration. How can that be, when their objective is once again the criteria laid down to safeguard the economic interests of Europe, when immigrants and people who need international protection are being kept on European territory under conditions of detention when their only crime has been to seek a humane life? European resources should be used not to finance policies to strengthen closed borders, deportations and repatriations, but to remedy the real causes of immigration and to promote human rights in a substantial manner within the framework of a mutually beneficial neighbourhood policy, far from the philosophy of the reforms of the World Trade Organisation and the World Bank and from the philosophy of military intervention."@en1

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