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"Mr President, the capitalist growth promised by the European Union and bourgeois governments is serving the profitability of capital, not grassroots needs. We have galloping unemployment, with 25 million unemployed, and it is spreading in leaps and bounds to all the Member States of the European Union.
Unemployment is taking on nightmare proportions for women and young people. One in two are unemployed in Greece and Spain. Unemployment in Greece has escalated to 23% and the number of unemployed has topped 1 million. However, in reality, the situation is even worse.
At the same time, the Greek Government and the Troika are abolishing collective agreements and slashing wages and pensions. Wages for young people have been cut by 32% and miserly unemployment benefits have been cut by 22%. The working classes, the grassroots classes and young people are in a living hell.
Thousands of young people are going down the route of forced emigration, wandering around Europe and other continents looking for ways to survive. There too they are faced with slave offices and flexible forms of work and are being offered starvation wages that do not meet basic requirements. Young people, regardless of whether they are living in their own country or have been uprooted from it, should not accept the unemployment, poverty and impoverishment to which capitalist barbarity is condemning them.
In such circumstances, the workers need to join forces in the fight for protection and relief."@en1
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