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"Mr President, various social organisations in several countries have addressed a letter to the European Commission complaining about and criticising the pressure it is bringing to bear on countries such as Portugal and Greece to privatise their water services. The Commission’s response clearly reveals the true face of those who control the destiny of the European Union.
Despite being aware of the catastrophe of privatisation in many countries in terms of soaring costs, deterioration in services and exclusion and inequality in the exercise of this basic human right – the right to water – the Commission openly defends the privatisation of this and other public services. Such an approach would contradict the assumed neutrality the Treaties provide for in this respect and would thus represent a bare-faced robbery perpetrated against these countries and their populations.
The people of Europe once again know what to expect from this European Union: the sacrificing of the rights of the many in favour of business for the few. They will get the response they deserve."@en1
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