Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-09-02-Speech-2-073"
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"Mr President, the debate on the social package requires us to be critical, as, quite apart from the timing, which arouses suspicion about the hidden agenda, we also fundamentally disagree with its content.
The package has arrived at a time of increasing reaction and popular displeasure with the social face of Europe. We are not the ones saying this; none other than EU data are painting a gloomy picture of the future: such is the prevailing mood among European citizens, especially young people, and it is constantly getting worse.
Perhaps the package is aiming to restore citizens’ trust before the Euro elections.
We on the left cannot accept the contents of the package, since its legislative rules strengthen market liberalisation, as is the case with the proposed directive on cross-border health care, which is based on the previous Bolkestein proposals.
At the same time, the Commission’s proposal on cross-border health care is leading to class-based health segregation: the rich and educated are being given the option of shopping around for health care wherever it is in their best interests.
A more social Europe needs a broader philosophy, not the announcement of measures that scratch at the surface of the problems involved and remain within the narrow confines of the EU’s character today."@en1
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