We are quick to condemn companies who make staff redundant while they themselves are making a profit, but governments must also bear their share of the responsibility, because the original European plan for free circulation and competition between countries with comparable living standards and social protection schemes has been replaced by the indiscriminate opening up of the market to capital and to products manufactured outside Europe in conditions approaching slavery.
Mais les gouvernements portent leur part de responsabilité, car au projet européen initial de libre circulation et de concurrence entre pays de niveau de vie et de protection sociale comparables, on a substitué l'ouverture indistincte des capitaux et des produits fabriqués ailleurs qu'en Europe dans des conditions proches de l'esclavage.