Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-09-03-Speech-2-311"
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"Mr President, the point I should like to make is that we simply want to cooperate better with the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. We have not reached a view on this report as we would normally do, partly because we received it far too late. The same may also be true of other committees.
Against the background of the matter we have just been discussing, namely the Commission Communication on policy coordination between economic policy, which involves competition policy, and employment policy and other areas of social policy, we need to consider to what extent we can achieve a number of things that are very important in the fight against unemployment.
One example of a very important issue is a fourth exemption regulation. If you are in a region suffering from severe problems and pressure, where subsidies are needed and the procedure for obtaining them is very bureaucratic – I myself come from such a region, but I know countless others – then this is very irritating. In these circumstances it is great to see the social aims in existing legislation being given a chance, and that is what I meant just now when I was talking about exchange. I hope that this base will broaden in the future, and that starting from the Spring summit in Athens we will pursue exchanges in an attempt to achieve common social and sustainability goals, considering what economic policy can contribute to this process rather than bringing matters which the Treaty describes as subordinate in line with economic policy.
Briefly, against that background I think that this is an excellent proposal and believe it important for competition rules in general – I am thinking for example of services of general interest, which I could list – to be re-evaluated and tested against what we want to achieve through social policy. Looking at the Lisbon process as a whole, I think that a number of the assumptions contradict what we are trying to achieve with our employment objective. Some objectives, such as the new economy for example, were quite unjustly selected in the Lisbon process. We can see that now and realise the far-reaching consequences.
State aid based on those Articles 87 and 88. Those articles are very important in rechanneling back to the objectives of social policy, and that is why we must avoid any misunderstanding. Perhaps we now need to go a step further. I believe that we must not only ensure that existing regulations are properly translated into social objectives but must also look at what social objectives we need, as formulated in the Treaty among other documents, and consider whether we should revise the Treaty, for instance to put social policy and economic policy on an equal footing.
Against that background, and considering the proposals contained in Mr Berenguer Fuster's report – and I should like to thank him and his committee for their work – I call on members to support Amendments Nos 1 to 4. Support by the whole of Parliament for these amendments could well sway us to vote for this proposal as a whole."@en1
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