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"In the face of the most serious crisis of recent decades, to which the neoliberal policies of the European Union have contributed, the Commission is insisting on deepening capitalist and neoliberal integration, adorned with a few fig leaves of demagoguery that have not even tweaked the fundamentals of the powerful financial sector.
It is not enough to say that a financial transaction tax is being created, at a ridiculous rate, if tax havens continue to flourish and the derivatives markets continue to feed speculation on the sovereign debt of the countries with the most fragile economies.
Even the measure of increasing the rate of co-financing for countries with so-called financial assistance programmes, which we have been demanding for years, is too late and, unfortunately, does not even mean the Union budget is being increased.
By insisting on the same neoliberal and so-called austerity policies, on reinforcing the Stability and Growth Pact, and on the centralisation of economic and political power, what we will have is the deepening of economic asymmetries and social inequalities, and of unemployment and poverty, with no future prospects for the almost 23% of young people who are jobless or the more than 100 million people at risk of poverty.
That is why we support the struggle of the workers and the people for the break and change that is needed, as we will have in Portugal next Saturday with the demonstrations by the General Confederation of Portuguese Workers (CGTP)."@en1
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