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"Madam President, I shall start this speech by attempting to bring into this debate all the outrage and indignation being experienced in many of our countries.
There are revolts of workers with precarious and poorly paid jobs; of millions of women and young people to whom a job with rights and a decent salary is being denied, and whose future is being mortgaged by increasingly neoliberal policies that intend nothing more than greater gains and greater profits for the usual suspects.
Unfortunately, this report does not get to the crux of these problems: it does not analyse the causes of high unemployment, or the real reasons for the loss of 3.5 million jobs over the last two years and the forecast of the loss of 2.5 million more jobs over the next few years. It limits itself to blaming the crisis, neglecting to mention that the policies of the Stability and Growth Pact, free competition, liberalisations and privatisations, and workforce flexibility contributed to creating and exacerbating the crisis. As such, while there are positive points here and there, the majority are mere palliatives; simple aspirin for the cancer of the capitalist, anti-worker and anti-social policies that are spreading in the European Union.
There are now thousands of highly qualified people who are out of work. That means the most urgent thing is to bring an end to the procession of companies going out of business, to the relocation of multinationals, to the destruction of industrial and agricultural sectors, and to the attacks on public services and small and medium-sized enterprises. That means the most urgent thing is to call a halt to the so-called austerity policies; to the programmes of aggression against the workers and peoples, such as in Greece and Portugal. If we do not do this, we will have no kind of agenda for new skills and new jobs."@en1
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