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"Mr President, first of all I want to say to the previous speaker, Mr Fatuzzo, that I am sorry that we in the Group of the Party of European Socialists are unable to support his amendments, for they simply do not fit into this context. Back to the report, however. First of all, I want to congratulate the rapporteur. There is reason for doing so, for this is Mrs Jensen’s first report, and it is also a very good piece of work she has done. As we all know, the report was, of course, adopted by a very large majority of the committee. That is gratifying, for this is a very important piece of work. This decision must ensure that the employment policy we talk so much about is not just a matter of fine words, but that these are in actual fact backed by vigorous action. Nor must there be any doubt that we in the Group of the Party of European Socialists support open coordination whenever this is the most effective tool for achieving the desired objectives.
Employment policy is so important because it is the test run for the open coordination method, and it is of the very greatest importance to show that this method is being taken seriously and is producing the desired results. Employment policy will simply be a model for many of the other areas – which are already part of the ambitious plan adopted in Lisbon last spring – in which we should also like to use the open coordination method. And in the next few weeks, when Heads of State and Government take the Commission’s telling-off seriously and give some impetus to the many outstanding initiatives in the wake of the Lisbon Summit, we shall hopefully also have it confirmed that the open coordination method can be used. The incentive measures must support employment policy, and that is why the incentive measures are important. I am therefore very pleased that we in the committees were able to reach agreement on a series of amendments and improvements to the Commission’s proposal.
These amendments relate to five different points. First of all, information must be provided about employment policy. Secondly, the parties in the labour market, together with the relevant local and regional authorities, must be involved. Thirdly, the focus must be placed upon equal opportunities for men and women, in which connection I should like to thank the Committee on Women’s Rights and Equal Opportunities. Fourthly, an assessment and revision of the open coordination method must be set in motion. And fifthly, the programme must be extended to include pilot projects as well. What, in other words, we are concerned with here is a quite extensive alteration to the incentive measures which, in a way, were good enough originally. In this way, we have extended their area of application, and I therefore also hope that, together, we can increase the financial resources we have for implementing the measures so that it will not in any case be possible to accuse Parliament of only producing fine words and not backing them up with genuine action. I hope that the Commission and the Council are ready to demonstrate the same drive that we have tried to demonstrate here in Parliament."@en1
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