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Many thanks, Mr President, Commissioner. The Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats has an extremely negative opinion of the report we are debating today. We believe that from the outset this report relied too heavily on an ideological approach to social problems in the European Union. At the same time, it ignores a number of key practical aspects relating to the real social situation in the European Union and the real problems we face.
It would perhaps be best if I focus just on two issues to which I should like to draw the attention of the House. Firstly, I come from a post-Communist country that for over 50 years enjoyed ‘blessings’ such as a planned economy, the abolition of private property rights and restrictions on competition. I can therefore state quite categorically that the rapporteur has failed to make any allowance in her assessments for the significant influence of Communist regimes on the social situation in the new Member States. Our past experiences lead us to believe that the European Union should not place excessive restrictions on the freedom to pursue economic activities. The critical assessments in the report are used as a basis to put forward proposals to increase the administrative burden on entrepreneurs, as well as to widen the tax base and create new employment pacts, yet new pacts and new legislative solutions are not what we need. Any debate we hold on unemployment should also focus on employers, as the only effective way to create new jobs is to make it possible for them to pursue their activities. This would then solve the problem of unemployment in an extremely practical manner. We will not create new jobs by imposing additional administrative burdens on entrepreneurs, raising taxes and placing restrictions on competition.
The Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats has therefore tabled a great many amendments. We would stress that in order for the group to vote in favour of the report, the very least that would be necessary would be for all the amendments to be adopted."@en1
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