Public Services

Public services have undergone increasingly virulent attacks in recent decades.

The cuts in state budgets have weakened or even wiped out most of the public services with the false idea that the private sector can do better than the state and the cooperatives and above all cheaper for the population. Neoliberalism has thus imposed any possible privatization.

Our working group aims to denounce these privatizations and to defend the character of public service in different fields, such as health, transport, energy, water, communication (radio, television), training and teaching. We have proposed the creation of a “European Observatory on Public Services” to monitor all these variations and their consequences for citizens with scientific data.

We are going to deepen certain subjects with public conferences and meetings and participate in meetings organized by the EL as well as the Summer University.

 

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Les Services publiques ont subi pendant les dernières décennies des attaques de plus en plus virulentes.

Les coupures dans les budgets des états ont affaibli, voir effacé la plupart des services publiques avec la fausse idée que les privés savent mieux faire que l’état et les coopératives et surtout moins cher pour la population. Le néolibéralisme a ainsi imposé toute privatisation possible.

Notre groupe de travail a pour but de dénoncer ces privatisations et de défendre le caractère de service publique dans différents domaines, tels que la santé, les transports, l’énergie, l’eau, la communication (radio, télévision), la formation et l’enseignement. Nous avons proposé la constitution d’un « Observatoire européen sur les services publiques » pour suivre avec des données scientifiques toutes ces variations et leurs conséquences pour les citoyennes et les citoyens.

Nous allons approfondir certains sujets avec des conférences et meetings publics et participer à des rencontres organisées par le PGE ainsi que l’Université d’été.

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