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"This European Council is taking place in a specific context for Portugal. The country’s economic and social crisis is plunging to unprecedented depths because of the path trodden by the European Union’s members, and of the national level application of measures dictated by them: intensifying regressive policies, increasing the exploitation of workers, new antisocial measures that worsen inequalities, increasing unemployment and job insecurity, and increasing poverty and social exclusion. It is in this context that the government, with pressure and applause from the EU, is tabling another package of aforementioned austerity measures – the fourth.
The intention of the directorate of EU powers is clear: to force another neo-colonial noose around the necks of the more economically fragile countries, attacking their sovereignty, with the anticipated conditions for the application of a European Stability Mechanism. All this, on the pretext of maintaining the privileges enjoyed by the great economic and financial interest groups – particularly those of the directorate countries – which a number of EU instruments contribute to, such as the Stability and Growth Pact, the Economic and Monetary Union, and the euro. Faced with this, the struggling Portuguese workers gave the necessary response to this in Portugal on Saturday in a great national demonstration."@en1
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