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"I voted against this report as it is futile to discuss the proposed aims for the European Semester in 2015, when the European Commission unremittingly refuses to acknowledge the underlying structural and economic problems which the two-pack and six-pack reforms pose, specifically failing to address the need for wide-scale investment in employment and social investment.
Reading through the aims of the Commission for the 2015 European Semester, the focus is supposedly to avoid economic boom and bust cycles, and aimed at restoring economic growth to the EU. However there is no mention of equitable growth and poverty reduction. It shows a clear disconnect between European bureaucrats and the reality that is facing millions of struggling working families in Ireland and right across the EU.
The European semester reforms’ primary aim seems to be just to ensure that Member States do not deviate from the economic neo-liberal ideology that it is pushing. It does not leave Member State with flexibility to implement alternative policies, which would be pro-investment, pro-growth, pro-jobs. In effect it is working to deny both Irish and other EU citizens real political choices when electing their governments and is further eroding sovereignty and reducing economic independence."@en1
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