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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-03-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Special European Council (23-24 March 2000 in Lisbon)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000313.2.1-042"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-03-13-Speech-1-0432
lpv:speaker	lp:Robert Goebbels2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (1999-09-14--2002-01-14)3 member; ECON (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-22--2001-03-13)3 unknown; Parti ouvrier socialiste luxembourgeois (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Prime Minister Guterres has been most convincing. The proposals made by the presidency mark a clean break from the usual Community jargon. The citizens of Europe do not want a theological debate, they want to see tangible action. According to Professor Fitousi, the most serious deficit currently threatening European society is the deficit of the future. Many of our fellow citizens are fearful of a future that been starkly portrayed to them for the past two decades. The most minor of accidents is depicted as an irreparable ecological disaster. Science is often demonised, with the result that fewer and fewer young people choose to study science. People are asked to be flexible, and to embark on the breakneck quest for productivity. Europe has indeed become highly productive, and would not otherwise be the world’s leading exporter. Nevertheless, the predominant rhetoric always centres on wage restraint. According to current dogma, salary increases must remain well below increases in productivity, or inflation will rise again. It would seem that the exorbitant profits made in the casino that is the international finance market have no impact on inflation. I am not making the case against stability policies nor against necessary structural reforms. The completion of the internal market, and the surplus of transparency, and thus of competition, stimulated by the euro mean that a good many adjustments will have to be made. New technologies will change the shape of a good many professions. Electronic commerce will cut out many middlemen. Most people would be willing to accept these changes were it not for the fact that the only prospects they are being offered are ever increased precariousness and ever reduced social protection. Europe currently has everything it needs to re-establish sustainable growth, which is yet another reason for associating a more ambitious social goal to our economic and monetary objectives. The Union has always succeeded when it has set itself hard and fast objectives. The internal market, Economic and Monetary Union and the criteria relating to this, and the action plans which emerged from the Luxembourg summit have yielded tangible results. The idea is to go one step further, to set joint growth objectives that lead towards full employment and the creation of a code of European social law.... I still have many points I would like to make. Mr President, we place our trust in you."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(The President cut the speaker off)"1

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