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"European competition policy has rules and objectives which will destroy small and medium-sized businesses and allow the European monopolies to take over, by financing and privatising them, rather than consumer interests, as you hypocritically maintain.
Moreover, the word 'competitiveness' is synonymous with greater exploitation of the workers, with the massacre of their rights and with reductions in the reward for labour, when contemporary requirements are increasing.
Legislation on competition is at the service of the anti-grass roots Lisbon Strategy and its objective is to control, prevent and shrink any subsidies or state aid to satisfy grass-roots requirements which the workers may have extracted with their struggles.
It is a lie that competition helps to reduce consumer prices. Experience to date has illustrated the opposite: the markets have been shared out, profits have increased for companies and prices have increased for the workers.
Is it not also in the name of competition that young people are being led into sweatshop working conditions which will be extended to all workers? Young people in France are right to protest and we stand by them. They constitute the hope for radical change against the exploitative policies of the EU and the governments, which is why we are with them."@en1
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