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"I would like to speak about the letter that three Heads of Government – Tony Blair, Gerhard Schröder and Jacques Chirac – have drawn up ahead of this Spring Summit. It represents an attempt to demonstrate their unity once more and to set the tone for the debate at the summit. There is nothing wrong with this in principle, because I think that it is good that some broad lines are set out amid the multitude of documents that crop up around this kind of summit, but I think that the epistle that these three have drawn up really plunges to new depths. It is an insult to the equilibrium and depth that characterise the Lisbon process, which we have now been working on for three years. In addition, I think that it clumsily upsets the careful balance in the Lisbon objectives, because – and a number of points have already been mentioned in the debate – it leaves out a number of objectives completely, and it only places the emphasis on the interests of trade and industry. It does indeed seem as though the letter has been copied from the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), the Federation of German Industries (BDI) and the French Enterprises Association (MEDEF), the employers’ lobby organisations in the respective countries. I took particular exception to a passage concerning the Hartz Commission. A kind of commission is proposed at European level based on the German model, but evidently the governments in London, Berlin and Paris do not realise that a European directive on temporary employment, the cornerstone of the Hartz Commission, is already under discussion in Brussels. An extraordinary deal has been struck between London and Berlin concerning that very directive, to block any decisions being taken on it; a deal which has to do with another dossier, the takeover bids directive, which is also being discussed at the moment. It is absolutely absurd that, in the self same letter that has now been drawn up ahead of the Spring Summit, it is proposed to set up a kind of Hartz Commission that reinvents the wheel, instead of now working constructively on that directive and a decision being taken on it in March, within the Economic and Social Council."@en1
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