Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-03-10-Speech-2-980"
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"Faced with the worsening economic and social situation in various Member States, to date the EU has not taken any effective initiative that has not been aimed at protecting financial capital.
We urgently need to adopt immediate Community measures which will help to effectively respond to the needs of workers, the productive sector, and micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, by mobilising the necessary financial resources.
However, the EU has debated and adopted a budget for 2009 as if nothing were happening – a Community budget which, in relative terms, is the lowest since Portugal’s accession to the EEC – once again showing its class nature.
Faced with evidence of the depth of the capitalist crisis (in its policies), the EP has failed to conceal the true situation. The resolution now adopted therefore timidly says that the Community budget for 2010 must be closer to the limits set out in the Multiannual Financial Framework 2007-2013 – which, in addition to being clearly inadequate, is not even observed – and also recognises that the category of expenditure is ‘insufficient’.
As we are ‘once bitten, twice shy’, we hope that this proclaimed concern and intent are not merely short-lived wishes, bearing in mind the forthcoming European Parliament elections, and that this is not, as always, simply a case of good intentions."@en1
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