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member; Delegation for relations with the countries of the Andean Community (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3
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"Mr President, Mr Rodríguez Zapatero, Mr Barroso, look, Mr Rodríguez Zapatero, if there is no change to the underlying economic orientation of the Union, whoever holds the rotating Presidency is destined to dismantle the European social model. That is the plain truth. That is the reason for the general strikes in Greece, Italy, France, Portugal, and the next one, on 29 September, in Spain.
These general strikes are responses by workers and pensioners to this economic orientation agreed by you and by a substantial majority of this Chamber. There is great consensus. Just look at the differences that there are in the national debates, yet, when you come here, everyone is in agreement. That is because here, you are all in agreement on the basic orientation of an economic policy that penalises workers and pensioners, who are not the ones responsible for the crisis. They are not responsible, and yet they are going to pay for the crisis.
For that reason, Mr President, I believe that the fundamental question is whether we have sufficient strength to change this economic orientation, which threatens the social model and social and territorial cohesion. At the end of the 1980s, the Washington Consensus moved to Brussels. There should be no intervention in the economy, all strategic services held in public hands should be privatised and steps should be taken towards deregulating the market. This policy of not intervening in the economy has led us into an unprecedented crisis within the European Union, and has placed the European social model in jeopardy. Therefore, it is impossible for a President-in-Office to save the situation without changing this model, which has made the Brussels consensus a photocopy of the failed Washington Consensus. It is a photocopy, Mr President.
You began with the resounding failure that is the Lisbon Strategy. That was not part of your remit, and yet, despite that resounding failure – which aimed for 3% growth, to achieve 20 million jobs and to earmark 3% of GDP for research and development – another strategy is being introduced on the same basis of not intervening in the economy and not having public instruments, a European Treasury, a European fiscal policy, active employment policies or industrial employment policies. We do not have a single instrument, and we continue in our commitment to this failed policy. Logically, therefore, the response of the European workers’ movement cannot be otherwise. This the movement that has tried so hard to maintain the social model, and so its response is general strikes. General strikes.
Therefore, Mr President, we do not agree with the result of this Presidency, and I say to you, as I said at the beginning, that if there is no change in economic policy, whoever holds the rotating Presidency is destined to be the instrument that dismantles the European social model.
Finally, with regard to foreign policy, we do not agree with the application of the European doctrine as a neighbourhood policy to countries that do not comply with clause 2 of the association agreements. The war crime committed by Israel against the humanitarian flotilla should have been met with the response of an immediate freezing ..."@en1
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