Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-12-14-Speech-2-054"

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dcterms:Date	"2004-12-14"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20041214.5.2-054"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Philip Bushill-matthews2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, at the start of this debate Mr Poettering referred to a resolution from the PPE-DE Group. This is an excellent paper and I commend it to you, Mr Barroso. Its priority is your priority: to make Europe more competitive and prosperous. It recognises that this can only be done by economic reform and, as part of the reform programme, it calls upon the Commission to offer stronger leadership to make labour markets more flexible. This does not mean that the Commission should lead only individual Member States towards the promised land, it should also lead each individual Commissioner. What particularly worried me during the previous mandate was the way that certain Commissioners ran their own individual empires. For example, in the area of my particular interest, employment and social affairs, I waited in vain for the Commission to act as a college and for Mr Prodi to highlight the way that certain social directives were hampering competitiveness and holding back employment. However, this seemed to be a no-go area for the Commission as a whole, as if to say that, if it dared to challenge proposed social legislation, this might signify that it did not care about social justice and social cohesion. We all believe intensely in the importance of social justice and social cohesion, but the greatest social injustice is unemployment: one of the greatest sources of social exclusion is unemployment. Mr Schulz talked earlier of workers' rights, and of course these are important, but we must also pay attention to non-workers' rights, the rights of those who are willing and eager to work but have no job. That is why the Commission as a whole must have the courage to revisit and rebalance the social agenda and to promote employment as a priority, with flexibility in labour markets as the guiding star. Mr Barroso, you will not succeed unless you do this. Europe will not succeed unless you do this. You must succeed and we wish you well."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Bushill-Matthews (PPE-DE )."1

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