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u8080today at 2:59 PM1 replyview on HN

Okay, I am not EU citizen, let's see EPP's manifesto:

As a central part of its campaign for the European elections in 2009, the EPP approved its election manifesto at its Congress in Warsaw in April that year. The manifesto called for:[16]

- Creation of new jobs, continuing reforms and investment in education, lifelong learning, and employment to create opportunities for everyone (govt universal social investment, left)

- Avoidance of protectionism, and coordination of fiscal and monetary policies (pro-federal pro-centralisation)

- Increased transparency and surveillance in financial markets(more regulation on market)

- Making Europe the market leader in green technology. (increase govt involvement in economy)

- Increasing the share of renewable energy to at least 20 percent of the energy mix by 2020. (increase govt involvement in economy)

- Family-friendly flexibility for working parents, better child care and housing, family-friendly fiscal policies, encouragement of parental leave. (Pro-Worker's rights, social security)

-A new strategy to attract skilled workers from the rest of the world to make Europe's economy more competitive, more dynamic and more knowledge-driven (Pro-migration)

Could you explain how that's considered right-wing?


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vrganjtoday at 3:16 PM

> - Creation of new jobs, continuing reforms and investment in education, lifelong learning, and employment to create opportunities for everyone

- Avoidance of protectionism, and coordination of fiscal and monetary policies

- - Making Europe the market leader in green technology.

Market ideology -> Right wing

- Increasing the share of renewable energy to at least 20 percent of the energy mix by 2020.

Done through incentives, not nationalized industry -> market ideology, right wing.

- Family-friendly flexibility for working parents, better child care and housing, family-friendly fiscal policies, encouragement of parental leave

Classic birtherism -> right wing

- A new strategy to attract skilled workers from the rest of the world to make Europe's economy more competitive, more dynamic and more knowledge-driven

Importing cheap labor for European capitalists -> right wing

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