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Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I have truly followed the debate with great interest and, of course, I cannot but agree absolutely with what Mr Karas said earlier about employment being necessary for social cohesion. I do not think that anyone will disagree with this conclusion.
I should like to formulate a few more conclusions. Within the framework of the gradual strengthening of economic activity and the increase in employment in the European Union, we need to make decisive progress, as Mr Hughes and other speakers emphasised earlier, in applying our medium-term strategy for economic policy and employment policy, as laid down in the broad economic policy guidelines and the strategy on employment. This strategy continues to apply, both to the old and to the new Member States, as Mrs Kratsa said and, of course, it must be understood in the best possible way, as Mr Moraes pointed out.
We therefore need to safeguard the continuation of both packages of guidelines in accordance with the principle of streamlining. Instead of reforming the guidelines, we need to focus, even though Mr Bouwman said earlier that conditions are changing. Of course, but there must be important changes, as I said in my first speech. Therefore, instead of reforming the guidelines, we need to focus on closing the gap between expectations and results. Careful monitoring of these procedures on your part, in close contact with your counterparts in the national parliaments, is the
to success, especially within the framework of the interim review of the Lisbon strategy. This review will be carried out next year and will naturally focus on ways in which we can achieve in practice the main objectives of our economic policy and our employment policy, including productivity, as Mr Pérez Álvarez emphasised.
The report by Mrs Randzio-Plath presents a series of amendments to the European Commission's recommendations relating to the 2004 update of the broad economic policy guidelines. The report by Mrs Hermange and her relevant amendments are designed to change the recitals of the guidelines for employment policies for 2004. I should like once again to thank the rapporteurs and the Members of the European Parliament for the constructive way in which they expressed their concerns. I am delighted that the amendments are in line with the strategy which we have agreed on in order to strengthen the economy and employment in the European Union.
As regards the amendments to the recitals of the employment guidelines, I should like to assure you that the European Commission will support in spirit those aspects designed to improve the recitals during further negotiations with the Council.
Finally, I think that the reference to older workers introduced by Mr Bushill-Matthews complements the reference by Mrs Hermange to the young unemployed and our position is therefore positive."@en1
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