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"Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the spring summit of EU heads of state and government has been devoted to the development of the economy and labour market. It is, then, also only natural that the two topics be linked, since they are two sides of the same coin.
Success in employment policy is crucial to achieving the objective of economic policy. The fact is, moreover, that an economic policy that increases competitiveness and flexibility and so improves the economic incentives for creating jobs is the core of employment policy.
In addition, there are the factors so brilliantly emphasised in Mr Mann’s report, which those of us in the Group of the European Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party are able to support and which we think will be improved by the amendments tabled by ourselves and the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats, amendments that we too shall of course support. Mr Mann’s report emphasises that we must have a stronger commitment to training, to improved incentives for accepting and creating jobs and to less bureaucracy and more flexibility in the labour market.
Unfortunately, the common employment policy is seen, from the job figures and unemployment statistics, not to be an unqualified success. We are much too far from the ambitious targets set in Lisbon three years ago. It might be enquired whether they were too ambitious. No, they were not; but there are trend-setting countries that do not feel sufficiently bound by the promises. There has been progress in some areas, but this is overshadowed, I believe, by a general picture of too modest a desire to comply with the common objectives. I agree with the proposal you have tabled, Commissioner, for simplifying and clarifying the open coordination of employment policy with a view to having fewer guidelines. These are constructive reforms that have been presented, and I also think it good that we should have better coordination with the common economic policy.
Furthermore, we must also become much better at monitoring and ensuring that the Member States do in fact feel bound by the fine promises given at the Lisbon Summit, and this also applies to the large countries."@en1
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