Text tabled : A7-0231/2011

  Ilda Figueiredo (GUE/NGL), in writing. – (PT) The De Keyser report is a concrete expression of the arrogance and the hypocrisy of the majority of Parliament in the context of the worsening crisis of capitalism and shifting forces on a world scale. Faced with the emergence of a progressive camp in Latin America and the intensification of the struggles to defend sovereignty and make major social and democratic changes in North Africa and the Middle East, threatening the interests of the large economic and financial groups in the EU and the US, the majority in Parliament promotes intervention and the violation of peoples’ sovereignty and of international law, in an attempt to stop and reverse these processes under the pretext of ‘democratisation’.

This position is all the more arrogant and hypocritical given that this same majority is playing the major role in the process of impoverishing democracy by attacking the economic and social rights of workers and people of the EU, as is occurring in Portugal, or violating their rights, freedoms and guarantees. The people’s struggle is the best and surest response to stop all those who, like the majority in Parliament, are trying to stop the course of history.