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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2012-07-03"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Review of the Danish Presidency (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20120703.4.2-016-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2012-07-03-Speech-2-017-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Søren Bo Søndergaard2
lpv:spokenAs	member; AFCO (2012-01-19--2014-02-04)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the United States (2009-09-16--2014-02-04)3 member; CONT (2012-01-19--2014-02-04)3 vice-chair; CRIM (2012-04-18--2012-07-10)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Switzerland and Norway and to the EU-Iceland Joint Parliamentary Committee and the European Economic Area (EEA) Joint Parliamentary Committee (2009-09-16--2014-02-04)3 unknown; Folkebevægelsen mod EU (2009-07-14--2014-02-04)3 substitute; IMCO (2012-01-19--2014-02-04)3 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (2009-07-14--2014-02-04)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, last year, the Danish Presidency made the following promise in its programme, and I quote: ‘The return of growth and higher employment to Europe must be secured in both the short and long term’. Today, it is time to take stock, and it has to be noted that, in the short term at least, this promise has not been fulfilled. In fact, the opposite is the case. We received the latest unemployment figures yesterday. They represent a human disaster – never in the history of the euro have so many people been unemployed – and this disaster is also a result of the EU’s demands for austerity, which the Danish Presidency supported from day one. Take Ireland as an example: on account of the fiscal compact, the Irish people will be forced to make excessive savings over the next few years. We are talking about savings that are so huge they will be equivalent to Ireland cutting out two thirds of its entire education sector. The growth and jobs pact that the Council adopted last Friday will not fix these sorts of consequences of the austerity policy. It is like putting a plaster on an open fracture. We currently have more than 25 million unemployed in the EU, and the Council adopts a jobs plan without any concrete objectives with regard to the amount by which unemployment is to be reduced. It is simply not good enough. When I spoke at the start of the Danish Presidency, I said that the people did not need more austerity measures dictated by the EU, but rather they needed jobs in order to improve our shared prosperity, and I said that the Danish Presidency now had to demonstrate whether it was part of the solution or part of the problem. Unfortunately, we have to concede today that, in this regard, the Danish Presidency was not part of the solution."@en1
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