press release
A delegation of Roman Network against the crisis, met in Rome yesterday afternoon Dr. Astoli D'Virgilio, representative European Commission in Brussels for relations with civil society. The theme of the meeting was to put pen to paper the social alarm due to unpopular measures imposed by European governments and institutions and report that they will meet strong opposition and social union.
"The guidance given at the European level are likely to kill the patient - have supported the activities of the network - particularly in southern Europe (Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal), from which time the companies are subject to adjustment policies structural developments on the popular sectors already under pressure for years. " In terms of welfare state, the work, privatization of public services and the same debt, the European institutions have ensured that the areas cut to date for all income and social cohesion in spite of a recession for years now become explosive latent and manifest. In order not to "undermine the confidence of financial markets," European institutions do not assume any freezing of interest payments on public debt (which should be in the hands of the people who feed and financial speculation), but do not bother trying to "undermine confidence "for workers and retirees who are seen to cut the incomes and purchasing power for years. Not only that. "In Italy, a referendum for the Defense of Water and Services public can not enter into collision with the European directives that require the privatization / liberalization of the local services (water, transport, waste etc).
Dr. Astoli On the other hand stressed that the Summit and the document adopted on 12 May, EU governments have in fact deprived the Commission of crisis management. The focus of the European Council (consisting of the government) means that decisions are taken by individual governments in coordination together inside a body that is answerable to Parliament as is the case for the Commission. The discussion continued on various aspects of social and democratic deficit in which they came are the various European treaties and the possibility that social movements and trade unions can intervene in some way on the strategic choices of the Union through proactive referendum at the European level. The data that is evident is that the European institutions and social and trade union bodies are two distinct and separate universes deeply. While the delegation of the crisis Network he met with the European Commission, in Piazza di Torre Argentina was held a garrison of the activists of the network itself, however, put a strain on the rain falling heavily.
Rome, June 3, 2010
The Network against the Roman crisis
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