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"Mr President, Mr von Wogau, with characteristic expertise, has produced a balanced report on guidelines for the Community’s economic policy. His consistent support of the doctrine of the social market economy as the most suitable common socio-economic model for the Community only deserves our thanks and our endorsement of the ideas he has put forward.
The social market economy, however, does not mean adhering to outdated structures or building resistance to change on the pretext of preserving social services and jobs. Neither is this plea made in Mr von Wogau’s report. On the contrary, Community structures have to be continually questioned and modernised if we want to realise the solemn promise made at Lisbon of a Europe as the most competitive, knowledge-based area in the world.
The signs are bad, however, and in some respects getting worse. I do not accept that staff should not be told about structural changes and job losses as early on as possible, but if there is any intention of evolving a directive from the Marks [amp] Spencer case, one that would essentially slow down the conversion of companies, I am against it. I am astonished at Germany’s official negative attitude – one I have only read about in the newspapers, it is true – towards the directive on mergers and takeovers, and at its aim to provide companies with artificial tools that will prevent the merger of companies which are aspiring to greater efficiency.
Like Mr von Wogau, I am tired of speaking about the much too slow deregulation and opening up to competition of the energy sector, transport sector and the Post Office in many different Member States. Nor, apparently, will the position regarding air transport become clear for years to come, and internal bolts have been drawn to prevent the advance of genuine, pan-European public procurement, which will tend to have a hampering effect on the real efficiency that results from genuine competition. The UMTS auctions were an unfortunately good example of how governments are also managing to shoot Europe and themselves in the foot in the building of an
Europe.
Mr President, well-balanced public finances, control of inflation and the monitoring of employment indicators are certainly important, even essential, but it is just as essential to clean the skeletons out of many of the national cupboards and put an end to the continued furtive glances from electorates."@en1
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