Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-01-12-Speech-3-043"
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"Mr President, the Lisbon Strategy is so full of grand ideas that we often hear very little – and indeed we have heard very little today – about the simple things, such as improving the quality of our own legislation. The fact is that the European Union could add between two and six per cent to its productivity if its regulatory framework was matched by the best in the world. We should therefore be making it a priority of the Luxembourg presidency to encourage the Commission to put real resources into consultations at an early stage in its proposals and to test whether its competitiveness is appropriate.
We also need to spend time looking at existing legislation and seeing whether it has achieved the effect that we asked for. Often we pass legislation, but do not look at what it has actually achieved. Is existing legislation being properly enforced and implemented? It seems to me that, in the European Union of 25, implementation enforcement should get far higher priority than it has up until now. I am glad that the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection has taken up my suggestion that we should have an own-initiative report looking precisely at these issues.
We have also heard considerable talk today about social Europe, but we have to ensure that social Europe applies to everybody and not simply to those who are in work. Far too many of our citizens are economically inactive, and therefore we should be putting investment into active labour market policies that enable people to get back to work and then policies that support people in order for them to be able to continue in work. If we fail to do that, then we will fail in our Lisbon Strategy.
Finally, I urge the Luxembourg presidency to take fresh initiatives in relation to Northern Cyprus so that we can ensure we have effective economic regeneration in that part of the country."@en1
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