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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the European Semester is only the first stage of national budget oversight, since it is not the only procedure. There are also the Treaties, the Protocol on Excessive Deficits, the Euro Plus Pact and, in your inimitable jargon, the six-pack and the two-pack. There is the Budgetary Treaty, a classic international agreement, which even this Parliament, not so long ago, considered useless and redundant. Different, even contradictory, target figures, different areas of application and texts of different legal natures, in which one part contradicts the provisions of the Treaty itself. In such circumstances, it is euphemistic to talk about legal ambiguity.
The ultimate aim of this labyrinthine effort is, itself, genuinely unique. Using the crisis as a pretext, it is to strengthen the powers of the European superstate by giving the Commission the right to monitor and dictate not just the level of public deficits but also the level of budgets and the detail of policies. The country-specific recommendations which you wish to beef up, the commitments in the context of Euro Plus, are all steps in the same direction: frozen or reduced wages, easier dismissals, deregulation of protected professions, increased competition in all sectors, dismantling of social protection systems; the room for manoeuvre which States have is derisory, as demonstrated by the pitiful pseudo-transfer of political power that has just taken place in France.
Do you want democracy in this process? Well, since your project is so amazing, at least have the courage to ask people their opinion outright instead of going through your political and parliamentary friends!"@en1
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