Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-06-17-Speech-2-245"
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"Each ‘European Year’ is an excuse for the EU to spend vast sums on its own propaganda, on a theme considered to be of media interest.
Therefore, 2010 is to be the year for combating poverty. Will it also be the year for combating globalisation, which causes unemployment? Will it also be the year for combating immigration, which forces wages down in Europe? Will it also be the year when we abandon the economic, trade, financial and fiscal policies that are dragging Europe’s middle classes into poverty? Will it even be ‘European’, caught as it is between combating global poverty and the inevitable priority given to non-EC migrants who are classed as amongst the most vulnerable people in the world?
Increasing and persistent poverty in Europe is a scandal. It deserves more than a ‘European Year’ promoting eurocracy. It deserves to be the focus of all the decisions that you make. Unfortunately, experience has shown that, regardless of prepared statements, this is not the case."@en1
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