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"Mr President, allow me to say a few words about employment strategy.
First of all, I am pleased that both the Commission and the Council so clearly identify with and advocate the Lisbon strategy, with its clear aims and its talk of economic growth, full employment and social considerations in balance with each other. It is very important to achieve a balanced employment policy, where a number of different interests stand side by side.
Secondly, it is good that the Commission speaks so clearly about the prospects for implementing employment strategy. We have had the problem that there have been a lot of good ideas, but with mediocre results when it comes to realising them in the Member States. It is important that the European Employment Strategy be coordinated with national employment policies. In this connection, the parliaments are a key factor, because they allocate the budgets for the national employment strategies. I think that it was good, therefore, that Mr Hjort Frederiksen, as well as the Commission, emphasised the role of the parliaments. I should, however, like a clarification. It is good that the parliaments are to play a greater role. Is there a firm commitment for them to hold debates and for them to take decisions? As we know, the parliaments do take decisions on national employment strategies. Is there another, different, European employment strategy which the parliaments should not be allowed to take decisions on? That is a practical question.
I also want to bring up something Mrs Diamantopoulou said, which I had heard earlier; that is, the meaning of stability as far as the guidelines are concerned. I can understand this wish for stability, and I fully share the view that there must be stability in the goals. The guidelines also speak of the means, however, and I am slightly more doubtful about the contention that the means must be just as stable. I believe that we must keep a grip on reality and focus on what is tangible.
May I say by way of conclusion that both the
enlargement process, with its very particular problems for the candidate countries, and the recent rise in unemployment present new challenges which demand a sense of reality. It must not then be said that the means have to be extremely stable and unchanging year by year."@en1
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