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"en.20120418.21.3-375-000"2
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"Mr President, I would like to say to Mr Barroso that the gulf between your rhetoric and the policies your Commission is implementing is so great that the entire European economy may yet fall into it. You talk about solidarity, but with the Troika, you implement policies that threaten the very basis of society in Ireland, Portugal and Greece. You talk about jobs, but because of your policies, unemployment is at the highest level since the introduction of the eurozone: 25 million people across the EU. You talk about sustainable growth, but you want to institutionalise austerity across Europe with the ‘Austerity Treaty’, which will turn the recession into a deep depression. I would like to ask you a few questions which I think the people of Ireland, who will vote in six weeks’ time on this Treaty, deserve an answer to.
Are you aware that, according to the Commission, in 2013, 18 out of the 25 countries will have structural deficits greater than that allowed by the Treaty? Are you aware that meeting the targets will mean cuts and extra taxes across Europe of over EUR 166 billion? In that case, how can you talk about sustainable growth? Your Treaty will turn Europe into an economic wasteland. Paul Krugman was right yesterday to write about the apparent determination of European leaders to commit economic suicide for the continent as a (…)"@en1
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