Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-04-03-Speech-2-287"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-04-03"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:People with disabilities2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010403.11.2-287"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-04-03-Speech-2-2882
lpv:speaker	lp:Ioannis Koukiadis2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Temporary committee on human genetics and other new technologies in modern medicine (2000-12-13--2001-11-29)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; PETI (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-08--2002-01-14)3 member; EMPL (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 vice-chair; Delegations to the parliamentary cooperation committees and delegations for relations with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (1999-09-13--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Panellinio Socialistiko Kinima (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, this communication reflects the European Commission’s intention to maintain and further promote the policy for a European Union without barriers. All that remains to be seen, between now and 2003, is just how serious the intentions behind this policy are. This sort of policy can only be implemented through a specific programme of actions, target evaluations, statistics and specific, self-imposed deadlines. Mrs Hermange’s report is, without exaggeration, a particularly important paper because it captures all aspects of the problem with perfect clarity and proposes a universal policy at all levels and in the broadest possible sense, by setting specific targets. We need to recognise the importance of this basic position on people with disabilities, irrespective of their individual disability, and of their needs as a whole as citizens, producers and consumers. We agree that the initiatives taken under this new approach are not tantamount to concessions or generosity or evaluated merely as costs, but form part of our productive system, which they further, and of our social model, which they strengthen. This new concept should also inform corresponding policies in the Member States. The point is whether or not the Member States are mature enough to look at it from this angle. It is no easy task. If it is to succeed, we must alter entrenched, opposing perceptions and mobilise the public sectors responsible, in order to prove that policies in education, culture, sport, employment and other sectors cannot succeed unless they incorporate the problems of persons with disabilities. So the message is that we are moving from an awareness to practicalities and that the aim is to ensure that these people play a full part in economic and social life. In the final analysis, with increasing numbers of disabilities as the result of road traffic accidents and accidents at work, we are all potentially members of this group of people and this issue does not only concern a number of unlucky, preordained people; it concerns all of us."@en1

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