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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we voted in favour of Mr Böge’s reports on mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund, thinking, above all, of those workers being made redundant. However, in doing so, we also felt a degree of unease. For in truth, this fund is as much good as a sticking plaster on a wooden leg in view of the wideranging social consequences of your irresponsible, excessively free market policy.
At times, it gives the impression, despite your denials, of using European taxpayers’ money to fund policies designed to relocate and restructure large companies, while simultaneously giving the Europe of Brussels the cheap option of declaring itself ‘in solidarity with’ the unemployed it is creating. Another reason for our unease: the thresholds required to qualify for these funds, especially in terms of the numbers of redundancies. For it is primarily and, once again, except in exceptional cases, the very large companies which benefit from them. It would appear that the workers of medium-sized, small and very small enterprises, the small businessmen and women who are shutting up shop, have been passed over yet again where economic and social policy is concerned."@en1
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