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dcterms:Date	"2016-02-24"^^xsd:date1
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Europski semestar za usklađivanje ekonomske politike: Godišnji pregled rasta za 2016. - Europski semestar za usklađivanje ekonomske politike: aspekti zapošljavanja i socijalne politike u Godišnjem pregledu rasta za 2016. - Upravljanje jedinstvenim tržištem u europskom semestru 2016. (rasprava)1
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20160224.14.1-199-000"1
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lpv:speaker	lp:Alfred Sant1
lpv:spoken text	"Madam President, the real problem with the current economic performance in Europe is investment. There is not enough of it, so growth is limited. The improvement – indeed the preservation – of social conditions for workers in employment, young people looking for a job, working families and pensioners is not in sight. These people claim that Europe is failing them. The social compact on which it was established is no longer there. It is not populist to agree with those who make such claims, as they are right. The problem is not about agreeing or disagreeing with them. The problem is how to get economic growth back on track so that full—time, secure jobs are generated for young people and the old do not fear for their pensions. We do not need complex technocratic tools to solve this problem. We just need the political will to think outside the box into which we have squared ourselves, supposedly in order to satisfy the Stability and Growth Pact. We need simple, decisive action that goes to the root of the problem: public and private investment. The record shows that private investment follows from public investment, not the other way round. Public investment has been lagging. The Juncker fund, worthwhile though it is, cannot cover the problem. Moreover, public investment is more effective when deployed at national level when it does not have to depend on the delays of bureaucracy. If we can find ways and means of promoting national public investment that will in turn stimulate national and Europe-wide private investment, would this breach the current rules of the Stability and Growth Pact? Possibly, yes. Should we care much? In my view, no, so long as we make sure that added public spending on a national basis is really being dedicated to investment, not recurrent outlays."@mt2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; BUDG (2014-07-08--2017-01-18)3 member; ECON (2014-07-01--2017-01-18)3 substitute; Special Committee on Tax Rulings and Other Measures Similar in Nature or Effect (TAXE 2) (2015-12-02--2016-08-02)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Alfred Sant (S&D )."2
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