Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-11-23-Speech-2-428"

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dcterms:Date	"2010-11-23"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:2011 budget (debate)2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20101123.37.2-428"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2010-11-23-Speech-2-4292
lpv:speaker	lp:Miguel Portas2
lpv:spokenAs	member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (2009-07-14--2012-01-22)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (2009-09-16--2012-04-24)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Iran (2009-09-16--2012-04-24)3 vice-chair; Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis (2009-10-15--2011-07-31)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries (2009-09-16--2012-04-24)3 substitute; ECON (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; Special committee on the policy challenges and budgetary resources for a sustainable European Union after 2013 (2010-06-17--2011-06-30)3 unknown; Bloco de Esquerda (2009-07-14--2012-04-24)3 member; BUDG (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; Delegation for relations with Iraq (2009-09-16--2012-04-24)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, tomorrow, millions of Portuguese workers are going to go on strike. They are going to go on strike with a very simple message: it is not those who work, it is not pensioners, it is not young people, and it is not the unemployed who should pay for a crisis for which they were not responsible. The current deadlock over the European budget cannot be understood without analysing its context, which is one of social tragedy and austerity policies that are being imposed on our countries. Austerity policies are not just unfair: they are a colossal economic mistake which promise to drag the European Union back into recession, which promise a future of unemployment, and which, above all, promise to accentuate the divergence between the countries in surplus and those in deficit. In this context, we must be very clear about this debate on the budget. We do not believe that there can be a currency without a substantial budget behind it and – let us be realistic – the 2011 budget under discussion is not just modest: it is a mediocre budget; it is a budget that does not respond to the crisis but is part of the crisis. That is exactly why it is important it is not repeated in 2012, in 2013 or after 2014. This is the issue that we are discussing; the issue of the future: do we want a Europe controlled by governments or a Europe that continues to be a Trojan horse for the interests of the financial system? In fact, the European left is interested in discussing own resources. We do not want new taxes on the European public, but we definitely do want to discuss how to make financial capital pay what it has not been paying: pay what it owes. That is the message that the public – the workers and the unemployed – are demanding from this House and from the European Union. Either we want a European project that has so little ambition to fly that it barely makes it off the ground, or we make it clear that we will not be content with the scenario being put to us by the United Kingdom and a group of governments, which is ‘do more with less money, because that is the Europe that we are offering you’."@en1
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