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"en.20110928.19.3-164-000"2
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"Mr President, one of the purposes of this Parliament from the point of view of the establishment in Europe is to act as a democratic facade on what is in reality a European Union dominated by big business interests and dominated institutionally by the Commission and the Council. But I think that facade may be beginning to crumble today when you look at what Parliament has passed.
It has passed a series of measures, the six pack, that is purely neo-liberal and austerity-driven in content. It has opted to give more power to the Commission to act as an austerity policeman and it has used the notion of reverse qualified majority voting to mean that a simple majority in the Council will not be enough to vote against sanctions applied by the Commission to a miscreant Member State.
The limited democracy that exists within the European Union is now being trampled upon in the race to impose austerity. What is the European Union establishment afraid of? They are afraid of the working class, they are afraid of the movements of ordinary people, they are afraid of the general strike in Greece, the protests in Portugal on Saturday, the moves within Spain – and I think they are correct to be afraid. I think the movements have to link up and build a European-wide movement against austerity."@en1
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