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"en.20111201.35.4-410-000"2
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"We have here an initiative and a resolution that are highly significant for the majority in this Parliament. The first recital in the resolution is, in fact, very revealing when it declares that ‘the European Single Market has brought tremendous benefits to 500 million Europeans, whilst opening up new opportunities for expansion for more than 21 million European businesses, and has become the real engine for growth within the European economy’. This ignores a basic fact: in the actual conditions under which this process of integration is taking place, the opportunities referred to really have arisen for some people, while, for others, they have remained mere promises, endlessly postponed, and have turned into nightmares.
Some have experienced real expansion, others only a long-drawn-out death and disappearance. Free-market competition has made life easy for the sections of society that wield economic and financial power, but has aggravated unemployment, increased the rate of bankruptcy among countless small and medium-sized enterprises, and done nothing to improve the day-to-day lives of the general population, as the present crisis is making plain. It is for these reasons that, on being presented with such a picture as this resolution puts before us, our only response can be to protest against the pressure being exerted here to entrench the single market yet further, which the rhetoric of ‘consultation’ and ‘participation’ essentially does nothing to change."@en1
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