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"Mr President, Dr Barroso, ladies and gentlemen, I should like to congratulate you, Dr Barroso, on finally bringing before this House issues that we have been attempting to discuss without much success. In fact, employment is at the heart of any growth agenda. It is obviously important to mutualise sovereign debt. It is obviously essential to increase the European budget. It is obviously necessary to review the Greek agenda. Welcome to the debate. However, that is not what is currently in play: what we have is a completely recessive agenda; an agenda staking everything on the budgetary discipline issue and the measures being imposed on the countries with the greatest difficulties by the Troika on a daily basis. The results of this are plain to see and run completely counter to what you have brought before us today.
For example, Greece has lost 20% of its GDP in five years. You talk about social cohesion, but poverty is spreading throughout Europe and the state is so weakened that private charitable bodies – NGOs – are having to replace it. You talk about social consensus, but it has been completely destroyed by the power of the Troika, which has even destroyed constitutional rights, drained pensions, and ignored and destroyed social consensus. You talk about the need for the emergence of small and medium-sized enterprises, but reduced demand and the lack of credit force these companies out of business every day, causing unemployment.
Therefore, what I should like to say to you, Dr Barroso, is we need to move away from these mistakes and this contradictory discourse. There are no jobs without relaunching the economy, in fact, but this involves a genuine Marshall Plan, not the support by financial assistance you mentioned, which serves only to pay interest and debt, and to renegotiate debts. A genuine Marshall Plan is a plan for growth, development and investment. Domestic demand in countries with surpluses needs to be unblocked, a European industrial policy needs to be reborn and external trade policy to be made compatible therewith, and minimum levels of public access to welfare and public services need to be ensured.
When will we see this agenda? My second question, Dr Barroso, is when ..."@en1
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