Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-06-07-Speech-4-026"
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"Five major concerns should be prioritised at this European Council, namely stopping the European Central Bank from raising interest rates, in order to prevent social injustice from becoming any worse; boosting public investment in order to create more jobs with rights and to reduce poverty and social exclusion; discussing measures aimed at stepping up participatory democracy and at broadening the pluralism debate on European issues; committing ourselves to the cause of a just peace for the Middle East, whereby the sovereign rights of the Palestinian and Iraqi people are protected; and strengthening cooperation and solidarity on the world stage in order to reduce social and regional inequality.
Instead, we see this fixation with pursuing the main proposals contained in the neoliberal draft Constitutional Treaty, which lapsed when it was rejected by French and Dutch voters. Now, the aim is demonstrably to avoid public debate, to sidestep referendums, to prevent the citizens from expressing their sovereign opinion and to bolster the concentration of power among the major European powers, in order to pander more to the interests of the economic and financial groups. As far as we are concerned, priority should be given to economic and social progress, and to the rights of the workers and the people. Any proposal for a new Treaty must, of course, be put to the voters in referendums to be held in each of the Member States on dates decided by the national authorities."@en1
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