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"Madam President, I do not intend to join in the chorus of praise for the internal market. Instead, I will be focusing on its failings. Currently, the EU’s neoliberal economic policy, the European Monetary Union (EMU), and the internal market are, in principle, putting the free movement of goods before the interests of citizens. As a result, a new Europe has been created, one which is characterised by mass unemployment, poverty and a growing class divide. At the same time, there have been cutbacks in measures to improve the environment and increase equality.
The report refers to the Kraków Declaration where the internal market is described as ‘the most powerful tool for putting Europe back on the path to sustainable growth’. The internal market cannot itself establish sustainable growth or create more jobs. That would be impossible. To achieve this, we need a completely new economic policy which is green and wide-ranging, allows for investment in the public sector, and puts people before the system.
Paragraph 33 states that the EU must offer direct human contact with ‘citizens and consumers via the Commission’s representative offices’. This is an excellent idea. We should be actively inviting citizens to visit the representative offices in their thousands, so that they can say what they think about the internal market and the current austerity policy, which has ruined millions of people’s lives and destroyed their future prospects.
The basic principle and objective of the internal market should be the welfare of people and the environment. It should not be promoting the interests of large companies as it currently does. In addition, the internal market has erected high barriers, which are carefully monitored, between itself and the rest of the world. The internal market scoreboard says nothing about the thousands of poor people from countries in the south who were hoping for a better future in Europe, but who drowned when their boats sank in the Mediterranean."@en1
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