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"Madam President, there is much to think about in the Commission’s work programme; but, as always, the devil is in the detail – and we need to hear much more detail, particularly with regard to the seven policy areas to which it refers. We look forward to making a constructive and positive input on the proposals, which have the potential to benefit the people of Europe. Taken as a whole, however, the work programme is, we believe, another missed opportunity.
The Commission needs to come up with a radically new approach. There is no mention at all of the tobacco directive, which is already long overdue. The work programme needs to put people’s needs before profits, and it needs to recognise that the austerity measures are particularly detrimental to women and children.
Child poverty has increased as a result of the austerity measures. I listened intently to what you had to say about growth and jobs. Despite the upbeat rhetoric, measures to invest in jobs and growth are half-hearted and under-funded, and are rendered somewhat ineffective by the ideological attachment to the policies of austerity. Already we have 25 million people unemployed across Europe, and that number is growing.
It is disappointing that the work programme does not address at all the failed policies of chasing after Third World conditions in employment and public services. We will not get out of this crisis by lowering wages and destroying jobs and public services, cutting spending and pouring billions of pounds into the banks.
Following the September State of the Union address by President Barroso, I said that he needed to give his head a shake. I respectfully suggest, Mr Vice-President, that you need to do the same, and get a better understanding of the damage that has been caused to peoples’ lives by the severe austerity measures that are being run through the European Parliament, the Commission and the Council."@en1
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