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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.
In the light of the aims of the European Commission for the 2015 European semester, the focus is supposedly on avoiding economic boom-and-bust cycles and 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 primary aim of reforms concerning the European semester seems to be just to ensure that Member States do not deviate from the economic neo-liberal ideology that is being pushed. It does not leave Member States with flexibility to implement alternative policies, which would be pro-investment, pro-growth and 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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