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"This debate is to discuss the lessons on what has been called the ‘European Semester’. The first lesson could well be ‘how to hide the causes of the crisis’. The problem, they tell us, is lack of coordination. Coordination is thus presented as an end in itself, so that the fundamental issues will be hidden: coordination using what policies and what means? The second lesson is ‘shuffle the pack and deal again’. Greater rigidity for the Stability and Growth Pact, more liberalisation and privatisation, development of the market, free movement of capital, and the devaluing of labour and workers’ rights: it is in all this and for all this that they want to impose ‘coordination’. In other words, in everything and for everything that they have been doing to date, with results that we all know. The third lesson is ‘ride roughshod over democracy’. National governments and parliaments are being relegated to simple functions of implementation; mere puppets for a power that is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a directorate that dictates from Brussels – or Berlin – the rules best suited to the defence of its interests. In truth, the most important lesson is being given at the moment by struggling peoples across Europe, who are rejecting this path and fighting for another way forward for Europe and its countries."@en1
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