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"en.20110308.25.2-508-500"2
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"The drama that we are once again seeing unfold before our eyes is becoming painfully repetitive and revealing of the essence of this European Union: of who makes the rules in the end, and on behalf of which interest groups. In this drama, as usual, there is no shortage of main characters, secondary characters and mere extras. The so-called ‘competitiveness pact’, which was drawn up by Germany and France as a despicable imposition on all the other countries of the euro area, and which was initially denied by its creators, is now being presented and advocated in the European Parliament by President Barroso of the European Commission. This after President Barroso had weeks previously criticised Chancellor Merkel for failing to acknowledge the role of the Commission. It is now clear what, in the end, the role of the Commission and its President is. The aforementioned pact, which President Barroso is now telling us not to separate from the goal of employment and growth, is a veritable revanchist crusade against labour and social rights through attacks on wages, through an increased retirement age, through attempts to destroy collective bargaining and through the levelling down of social rights. It is also an attempt to impose a veritable sentence of economic dependence in the colonial style on countries like Portugal."@en1
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