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Madam President, I am going to respond to the first two questions because they relate to an extremely topical issue of very wide general interest.
To return to the question of demoralisation among staff: clearly, we have created a sense of insecurity this year. I am aware of that: it has been a difficult task but we could not do things any differently, for we have had to go right back to grass roots and review every job description, the fundamental objectives and also the issue of multiculturality. So why is it that this reform is so problematic? Because we cannot be content to copy or imitate blindly any of the national administrations: either we succeed in the ground-breaking experiment of combining the different traditions and cultures to create a single tradition and a single culture, or we will have failed in our task. Obviously, we could not – we cannot – accomplish such a process without going right back to grass roots and starting completely afresh. I am quite aware that this has caused concern and I take full responsibility, but there was no other option. Even today, our debate starts with an open proposal, a proposal that is not limited to points to adopt or reject but which is the starting point for a discussion – moreover part of our tradition – that will, in the future, become part of a tradition of public administration which is different from that of any individual country.
Well then, we are still a long way from completing this reform – it will take the whole of the forthcoming year to implement it – but, as Commissioner Kinnock said just now, we should have completed the dialogue process, this process by which, together with the trade unions and staff, we are to establish our strategy, before July. We plan to have the definitive reference framework ready within the next few months, before the summer, the following stage then being to implement the individual chapters."@en1
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