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"Mr President, the Council's answers to our questions this afternoon have been clear, albeit not as full as many of us would have liked. We are well aware of the importance that Denmark itself attaches to the work of the social partners in that 80% of Danish workers are covered by collective agreements, but we are also aware that, as we have been hearing, a number of Member States do not share this view.
Parliament is beginning to feel a sense of urgency about the need to give greater coherence to the work of the social partners. As has been said, this becomes crucial as we look towards enlargement. We would be interested to hear what involvement is foreseen, and at what point, for the social partners from the accession countries.
We are also aware that there are many areas where such consultation is already being advocated, in the temporary agency work directive for example, and in a whole range of other areas relating to family-friendly work, quality of work, modernisation of work, organisation, active ageing policies and so on. So we are also hoping that this new approach will be able to look at the qualitative aspects of growth and employment, which are all too often forgotten, and the social repercussions as a whole. I would echo much of what Mrs Figueiredo has already said.
In terms of funding, I find myself agreeing with Mr Pronk as to the source of funding and again this is going to have to take particular account of the enlargement process.
As far as the role of the European Parliament is concerned, we are beginning to find an increasing number of forms and areas of cooperation in which Parliament is not fully involved. Open coordination is one area where we are still getting no clear response as to where Parliament actually fits into the whole process.
We are also aware that certain governments do not want to see any extension of parliamentary powers in the convention process. Some of them seem to be starting early in looking at issues such as the tripartite summit and Parliament's involvement there. Whilst we are looking at questions on the legal basis, this is not the only issue where the question of Parliament's involvement arises. I am thinking of the coordination of social security for third country nationals. We look forward to the legal opinion and we look forward to greater involvement for Parliament so that in future this will not be an issue."@en1
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