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It is a fact that the criteria for EMU should have included criteria for combating unemployment in the Member States. The quantitative and qualitative targets set at the Lisbon Summit and the fact that promoting high levels of employment was included in the European Union's main objectives has helped fight unemployment and reduce the number of unemployed to 13 million.
The objective, however, of full employment set in Lisbon is a political commitment by the leading Member States, not a binding legal commitment.
Nonetheless, in order to combat unemployment in the Member States, European governments need to learn from each other, coordinate their approaches and exchange best practices.
The proposals in Mr Herman Schmid's report on the guidelines on employment could help us make a careful evaluation of these guidelines.
What happens, however, when a Member State such as Greece, where unemployment has risen from 6.3% to 11.1% in the ten years between 1990 and 2000, has had the same recommendations on combating unemployment since 1998? Safeguarding employment should be a priority, not an empty gesture."@en1
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