Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-09-02-Speech-2-035"
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"en.20080902.4.2-035"2
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"Mr President, President-in-Office of the Council, in recent years your policy, the fundamentalism of the marketplace, has dangerously increased inequalities and eroded the welfare state.
The package you have presented to us with fine words is but an empty tunic. Of the 19 proposals only 3 are of a legislative nature and one of these, the proposal for cross-border health services, introduces the Bolkestein directive by stealth, since it adopts a neoliberal stance.
While you utter these fine words in presenting this empty tunic, the Sarkozy government is playing a key role in the Council by passing a deplorable directive on working hours. This constitutes a major social regression.
Rather than try to create a good impression with your fine words and keep an eye on the Euro elections, which are looking awkward since the Irish ‘no’ vote, you would do better to propose specific measures and allocate revenues from the Community budget.
A word to Mr Schulz, too, if he is listening to me. It is true that right-wing governments have contributed much to the demolition of the European social model. In several countries, Mr Schulz, as in your country, Germany, or in the Netherlands or Austria, they have teamed up with the Social Democrats to destroy the European social model."@en1
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"Dimitrios Papadimoulis (GUE/NGL )."1
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